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...grateful to the C. A. 0. & G. because it would be difficult to find any other grounds for considering Mae West a good influence on the U. S. cinema public. The narratives and conversation in her pictures, which she writes herself, are only less suggestive than her extraordinary gait-a combination of slink, strut and waggle. Uttered in her slurring, husky voice, Mae West's slogan-"Come up and see me some time" -sounds like the composite catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious...
...front door, he knew whom to let in, whom to keep out. He managed the White House weddings of Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth, of Eleanor Randolph Wilson to William Gibbs McAdoo. President Wilson trusted him with the secrets of his romance with Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait, let him arrange their marriage. Tall, immaculate, dignified Chief Usher Hoover's manners were rated second only to those of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Gait Recorder. When patients with foot or postural troubles go to Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz in Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Schwartz puts hobnails on their shoes and has them walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph...
...afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus behind a few lively skiers to climb hills in the vicinity of Hanover, Etna, or Norwich, their odd clothing and clumsy gait provoking more derision than enthusiasm in college circles...
...movements are greatly exaggerated. In reaching for an object, the arm will wander aimlessly. The hand, attempting to grasp something, may remain fixed in that position, and is relaxed with difficulty. In the early years the patient may learn to walk after a fashion, and the gait is quite characteristic. The toes scrape along the floor, the heels are not brought down, and the spasm of the thigh muscles forces the individual to move in a cross-legged fashion. Speech is difficult, and not infrequently profuse salivation with drooling tends to reflect against the normal mentality of the patient...