Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heavyweight champion of England and Mary's onetime sweetheart, Sailor Joe Mummery conceived a fondness for her boy, Otho, when Mary's husband died. He sent him "up to Oxford" to learn boxing and other sciences. There Otho, weak-kneed through love of his own sweetheart, one Margaret, failed to conquer Margaret's brother at fisticuffs, thus losing Joe's esteem and help...
...strangely enough, there is another group which casts jealous eyes upon the group privileged to give a junior prom. The sophomore class is raising its voice, and in eloquent tones deplores the lack of Terpsichorean favor from the weak-kneed principles of tradition. The class of 1931 demands a sophomore dance! Financially, a sophomore dance would be a greater failure than a junior prom. Two financial failures would be a cordial invitation to abolish the Freshman Jubilee...
...date of the Norman invasion or the French irregular verbs fixed in his mind when a bare-kneed cutie, all scented up with Black Narcissus, is sitting just across the aisle? No one without the sales resistance of a Galahad...
...conceived in the triumph of Cousin Tomlin's demise, her husband implored the doctor to let it die. For baby Rex had a little horn above his left ear. But Rex was not allowed to die. He was cherished and guided from squalling infancy to wobbly-kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will...
...quarrel concerned Fascist policy and was between two members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...