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...getting-and keeping-burlesque in barracks required a musicomedy plot too complicated to explain and too silly to bother about, Lindsay & Crouse never stopped to worry. They tossed in gags-their own, burlesque's, the Army's-by the carload. They waded waist-high in corn. They piled Pelion on Ossa, and Minsky on the War Department. They plundered burlesque for all it was worth-strip teases and straight men, the "elephants" and the "grind"-and then brazenly parodied...
Hong Kong's business section became a sordid shambles as the wind tumbled walls, roofs, windows, shop signs. Motorcar parts flew like pebbles. Steel lampposts were bent almost at right angles. A waist-high flood of stinking water and mud seeped turgidly through the waterfront streets...
Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee...
...Detroit, handicapped by one less man than their opponents, had no one to cover Chicago's small right wing, Harold March. Chicago's Romnes got the puck in mid-ice, passed to March. March turned in from the sideboards, whisked past the Detroit goaltender a waist-high shot that ended the game, 1-to-0, the series...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...