Word: knee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table her condition was good." But gangrene set in, because (he says) the woman was removed from the Osteopathic Hospital; because (say her relatives) Dr. Schireson bungled a needless operation. Other surgeons were obliged to amputate her legs above the knee in an effort to save her life. The Journal of the American Medical Association, of which Dr. Morris Fishbein is aggressive editor, last week called Henry Junius Schireson "Schireson-the Disgrace of Illinois...
...game last night was rough enough to force six players out because of personal fouls called on them, and Clancey, Holy Cross guard was taken out with an injured knee...
...also a paragraph describing the dress required by an undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric of white. There must...
...ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...
...laid his hand on my knee...