Word: waists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season they present a haunting, chaotic play by famed Sean 0'Casey of Dublin, author of Juno and the Paycock (TIME, March 29, 1926). Through its symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist. He then had to roll himself about in a wheel chair while his erstwhile love cuddled another boy. In the meantime a profound and troublous scene has occurred. Avoiding the acute battlefront description of such books as All Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey...
...before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval of Dictator Stephen Bethlen.† Soon many a Hungarian soldier will receive an old fangled flogging thus: He strips to the waist. Meanwhile whips have been doled out to the men of his company and they line up in double ranks, facing inward. Down the alley of whips the delinquent must march, not too slowly, or a soldier who follows will bayonet him in the back, not too fast, or a second...
Fritzi Scheff veils, Fritzi Scheff corsets, Fritzi Scheff pictures in all periodicals. . . . Her legend grew like any other and soon the world knew that her waist was just 17 in. around; that she approved agnosticism; that Mrs. William Astor dined her and occasionally the Vanderbilts...
...shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm is his museum of the pomps and vanities, from wasp-waist corsets to collapsible lipsticks, which he had made his disciples discard. Theatre and cinema houses are banned in Zion. So is tobacco in all its forms. Opposed to all scientific attainment, Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio...
...President, the House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2667 ... in which the concurrence of the Senate is requested." Thereupon Clerk Chaffee passed his document over to the Senate attendant, bowed again from the waist, smiled, backed out of the door...