Word: waists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...48th state, Delaware, the wife-beater is taken to the jail or workhouse yard, is stripped to the waist in public view, is tied to a post, is lashed with a tough-thonged whip once, twice?30 stinging times. He goes home, beats no more, is no more beaten. For wife-beaters, the whipping-post is the unbeatable punishment...
...little men, naked to the waist, confronted each other in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. It was easy to see who would win. One was as wan as if he had spent his life loitering with La Belle Dame Sans Merci beside her autumnal lake, her birdless woods; his face was drawn, his body lean almost to emaciation. He was a young Jew, the challenger. Opposite him stood a diminutive but hirsute Italian, his eyes as fierce as the dark lakes of Il Pitrgatorio, his round muscles bulging under his sleek brown skin. He looked truly what he was-the bantamweight...
...iron "pulpit" lowered over the bow has proved a great success. Air. Beebe posted himself at that vantage point and, submerged to the waist at every pitch of the vessel, scooped up many specimens. Patches of Sargassum weed were encountered, even before reaching Bermuda, and specimens of weed taken with the crabs and little fishes which accompany...
...involve many pains, bodily as well as mental. I know one boy who has given up the life of a sailor to write poetry. He goes without meals to carry out his ambition. Another, unwilling to let his wife go hungry, works by the hour in a shirt-waist factory, reserving enough hours to finish his plays. Success may crown their efforts...
...cuadrilla there are positions to be won. First, that of the picador who, dressed in chain-mail up to the waist, has but to goad the bull with a sharpened lance, keeping his horse's blind-folded eye toward the beast until it charges, gores the horse, and gives the picador time to be dragged over the arena's paling...