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...again he turned his head to see how he was doing. Rice, pumping along with his peculiar heel-pounding gait, fell farther & farther back...
...Swine erysipelas causes unusually high temperatures (normal for swine: 103°-104° F.), stiff gait, enlarged joints, red spots on skin, sudden death. If caught early, anti-swine erysipelas serum may help...
Both papers' stories quoted policemen and witnesses at length as saying that Mankiewicz "stumbled and nearly fell. His gait was staggering, his speech slurred and he was quite talkative. His eyes and pupils were dilated. He admitted having been drinking." Both papers clamored for justice; Beverly Hills' Police Chief C. H. Anderson was quoted: "We are determined to protect the streets of this community against intoxicated and reckless drivers. The Mankiewicz case seems like a flagrant one, and we are determined that it shall be justly handled...
Comedy has always been an added attraction of the Trotters. Tatum deliberately capers around the court in a rocking chimpanzee gait, his long arms swinging, his teeth bared. Going for the ball, he often flaps his arms gooselike; when he jumps, can reach eleven feet into the air to block opponents' shots. Sometimes he hides the ball under his shirt, perches it on top of a bewildered opponent's head...
...means myopic. He observes, in the gait of the women, "a kind of serenely confident ostentation"; he notes too that they are bold with their eyes in the streets, and the men shy, almost to a reversal of sex. To him the well-known myth about the dominant American female is incorrect; "it seems to me rather the cult of woman, a little in the spirit of the troubadours. ..." When Remains explains to him that American men, though you may talk with them freely about the French or Chinese or Tahitian, have "a curious-and in a way admirable...