in-at-the-waist

Updated: May 8, 2025

A youth, thewed like an ox, surmounted on a stack of three self provided canned-goods boxes, his in-at-the-waist silhouette thrown out against a sky that was almost ready to break out in stars; a crowd tightening about him. "It's a soldier boy talkin', Gert." "If it ain't!" They tiptoed at the fringe of the circle, heads back. "Look, Gert, he's a lieutenant; he's got a shoulder-bar.

Fannie Hurst - Gaslight Sonatas