Word: gaits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor and her accomplice will be on the brink of matrimony. They have become engaged to each other in half the civilized countries of the world, always with...
...President Wilson's betrothal to Mrs. Norman Gait shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania): "A man may be too proud to fight and yet find himself in a serious engagement...
...horse stake at the National Horse Show four times in a row. She won it for the fifth time last week. In the Cohasset, L. I. show last summer she won her 50th championship. Fifteen hands high, she holds her plump neck punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots...
...school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity, contorted, smashed into Belize at 2:30 p. m. with the vindictive shriek and speed of a racing plane...