Word: trousered
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...chest wall. The boy was transfixed like a chicken on a spit, suffered neither shock nor collapse. One of the workers calmly grasped the rod, pulled it out, rushed the boy to Metropolitan Hospital, where doctors made an incision in the chest, fished out a small circle of trouser which had been pushed up by the rod. When they made a slit up the abdomen to take stock of the damage, they found kidneys, liver, stomach, heart, lungs, glands,arteries and nerves miraculously intact. Only injuries were two punctures through the bowel which were quickly stitched up. Said...
...tests last week determined that 13 Nationalistas fired the fusillade-65 to 80 shots-which slew two persons, wounded 32, at last fortnight's Occupation Day in Ponce. Detective Juan Colon shielded Governor Winship's body with his own, but one bullet ripped the Governor's trouser leg. For once U. S. colonial administration rose to the British standard: The Governor snorted: "What damn poor shots they...
...Duston, England, Marmaduke Harrison, 82, died after breaking a thigh in trying to put both feet in the same trouser...
...Robber Symphony is early Keystone. The sound grinds, roars, squeaks. The photography is mostly bad, the acting lugubriously burlesqued, the fantasy laid on with a shovel. Two of the least unsuccessful fantasies: The dog's tail wagging to rhumba music; the dog wetting a man's trouser-leg because he will not give a penny for the music...
Bathroom humor is very old. As to its age, there are two main hypotheses, that it is as old as the hills, and that it is as old as a trouser-clad culture. Advocates of the former theory might admit when pressed that if not as old as the hills it is as least as old as hills with bushes on them. Advocates of the latter theory would claim, if given half a chance, that no such thing existed in, say, Polynesia before the arrival of Captain Cook. But they probably would not have read "Coming of Age in Samoa...