Word: waists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower the comparison of course, reverses itself; but none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third of a million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held Manchuria, and who dominated all North China from his barbaric Court at Peking. Last week the son of defeated and assassinated Marshal Chang...
...this last volume. Destiny Bay is the bonniest corner of Ireland, where the purplest heather grows, the gamest trout swim, the swiftest horses race, the most picturesque of gypsies roam, and the finest gentlefolk rule. Head of the ruling family is Sir Valentine, red-bearded from eye to waist, soft of heart, sharp of eye, with a ready curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady...
...earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings, but could only force his hands slightly upward...
...London Evening Standard alone eschewed guesswork, chartered a plane exactly like Loewenstein's, sent up a "burly reporter" with a rope around his waist. After several times "hurling himself at the door" the reporter reported the impossibility of opening it against the pressure of the 300 mile gale...
...river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights and signboards glitter. At the cinema the feet of Charles Chaplin are shown. Bare arms and bare legs at a revue move like machinery. A bit of Beethoven. A bar and an arm tightening about a waist. A swirl of skyrockets. A sudden...