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It seems to me that the same artistic impression is to be detected in the still earlier paintings of the wasp-waisted little ladies of the Cogul rock-shelter in Catalonia. We find here the same sinuous figure with exaggeratedly compressed waist, prominent bosom, and emphasised haunches. But it is many, perhaps forty, thousands years earlier!
You won't like her freeze her out." "All righty. Say Billy dear has you any choclums?" "Not for little gourmands," he took her in his arms. "I say, Warbie, you promised to cut out sweets. Look here." He led her to the picture gallery where his simpering or frowning ancestors looked down in painted disapproval. They were all slender wasp-waisted ladies, long lean men. Not a fatty in the bunch.
The sight of this emotion was reassuring, but its source was a mystery, for it had seemed to the playwright that the wasp-waisted youth's remarks though horribly damaging to the cheap little Canbys with their cheap little "Roderick Hanscoms" were on the whole rather flattering to the subject of them, and betokened a real interest in his career. "Ass!" said Potter.
Here the consumption of tough macaroni or of an ambiguous frittura sufficed to transport me to the Cappello d'Oro in Venice, while my cup of coffee and a wasp-waisted cigar with a straw in it turned my greasy table-cloth into the marble top of one of the little round tables under the arcade of the Caffe Pedrotti at Padua.
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