Word: gait
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roback's last two chapters re titled "Can Personality be Changed" and "Remedying Certain Defects." Bearing, posture, gait, modulation and intention of the voice "enter into the total personality picture", but practice and exercise can accomplish much Dr. Roback makes numerous general suggestions, but his book is more for the student than for the subject. Perhaps the most skillful thing which the Doctor has done has been to make the layman know the meaning of the technical terms before he gets to them. This, and the easy conversational style in which it is written, make "Personality" good reading, even...
...worked as handyman in a New York bar. But for 25 years he has been a teetotaller, liking the looks but not the taste of wine. He lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost in Hamlet, hinnying like a snipe...
...They came from behind in the third period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong legs pumping in characteristic gait resembling a shuffle, but matchless in speed, broke a tie and won his team's series by curling a high shot past Gardner, frenzied Chicago goalie, who had stopped everything up to that time. Against the Rangers in the second round of the playoffs, Desrivieres, rookie of the Canadiens...
...executes the bewildering Chinese orthodoxy of posture and diction. Playing his feminine roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life. His dances with swords and wands possessed an extraordinarily feline continuity of movement. His falsetto was harsh but expressive. Watching his gait, his play with hands and voluminous sleeves, his tender coquetry, you could understand why Chinese poets have written panegyrics about his eye, smile, shoulder, even his waist...
Rebound. Hope Williams is a boyish young woman with a shambling gait and a sarcastic monotone. She belongs to the Manhattan Junior League and appears professionally in plays by very clever young men about people who are also apparent Junior Leaguers. Last season it was the more-than-clever Philip Barry's Holiday. This season it is clever Donald Ogden Stewart's Rebound, in which a young couple get married after they have each been disappointed in love. During a month of honeymooning in Paris the bride conceives a great love for her husband, whereas he gives every indication...