Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wooster, Ohio, last week an old man who had recently had a leg amputated at the hip was made very happy. He was Dean Emeritus Elias Compton of the College of Wooster. He had just learned that his son. Professor Karl Taylor Compton, chairman of Princeton's physics department, had been made 11th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
After courteously asking the bootleggers to make themselves comfortable, he found some pretext to call a roommate into his bedroom. They emerged a moment later, their hip-pockets bulging with the giant...
...blood, thunder and lurid display. Their psychology seems about as complex, to untutored Western eyes, as that of The Perils of Pauline or Shenandoah. The actors produce sobs and choked voices as easily as did the rural players of the '905 when informed that the dour gentleman in hip boots was about to foreclose the mortgage. Principal among the actors is Tokyjiro Tsutsui of Kyoto. Osaka and Nagoya, who stalks about in the dark robes of "The Shadow Man" and finally commits harakiri with a four-foot knife...
...real fight. Now at the referee's signal he rushed out of his corner and met Scott, chasing him around the ring. For a round Scott boxed nicely. In the third round Sharkey, overanxious and savagely aggressive, swung a left hook which landed on Scott's hip, below the belt. The Englishman slid quickly to the floor, screwed up his face, claimed a foul. Referee Lou Magnolia ordered Sharkey to his corner, helped Scott up and examined him. Because Scott has claimed fouls in eight previous fights it was more or less taken for granted that he would...
...Manhattan Ong You, 60, leader of the Hip Sing Tong, was hauled into court, charged with issuing tickets for a policy game. The court interpreter was asked to read one of these. Read he: "The dragon will walk the eternal paths of glory and the lion shall be exercised. Would that our ancestors bring on us only fair skies with shining suns." Ong You, purveyor of Chinese New Year's cards, was discharged...