Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...
...photograph itself is concerned, I do not know if I ever saw a parade of bowlegged, knock-kneed, crooked-spine, spindle-shanked, potbellied, emaciated and physically deformed half wits, unnatural looking people than the photograph which you had the nerve to publish in your supposed to be high class and respectable magazine...
...will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms and the romance he drew around war brought entire battalions to their slaughter. . . ." (In 1930 German Nazi collectors of toy soldiers called toy soldiers "the best of all means for fostering thought of preparedness and counteracting the weak-kneed pacifism so prevalent in Germany these days...
...Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon at the end of a century when Jean De Reszke's dying Siegfried turned our hearts...
...Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...