Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date of his operation neared, indomitable M. Poincare, although suffering considerable pain, insisted on getting up each morning, made a point of dressing himself unaided, even buttoned his small feet into the high, old fashioned shoes affected by many a French elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed...
...roaring crowd at the new crimson- seated Chicago Stadium saw a notable fight. Tired by last minute weight-making tortures,* for two rounds Champion Mandell barely kept his feet as Brooklyn's Tony Canzoneri, tough challenger, rushed and slashed, came close to rocking Rockford's sheik to sleep. Then class told and Tony Canzoneri found himself taking many a left jab, many a deft hook, on the chin, on flattened nose, in his lean torso. Baffled but vicious, the Italian continued his savage rushes. To "Long Count" Dave Barry, referee, they looked convincing. But not so convincing to the ringside...
...southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between...
...suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company has taken bet ter mountain-scenes than these. No miniature-sets and no doubles are used. You see the actors swinging over precipices thou sands of feet high, hooking spiked shoes into glassy walls. Best shot: Peter Voss getting...
...Feast Day of St. James, but not the placid sort of feast day Rome is used to. From early morning the cobbled pavings clattered beneath the feet of multitudes wending their way to St. Peter's Square. The day grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...