Word: torsos
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...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...
...Gateway of the Moon. A little half-caste girl in the brackish underbrush of Bolivia falls in love with a British engineer, name of Arthur Wyatt. Far from shy, she immediately and as constantly as possible enwraps his torso with her physical charms. Finally, he is content to stay enwrapped...
...waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...
...Phidias. If not his, who else could have equaled his genius? seems to be the usual conclusive argument. It is generally granted that Phidias had no equal in his time, that many of the pieces in question are of merit equal to the Apollo Belvidere, the Laocoon, the Torso of the Belvidere...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...