Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...
Most celebrated of McNamara's confreres is Franco Georgetti, a small knock-kneed Italian who finished a sulky last in last week's race, but failed to butt his head against a wall for losing as he did once. Obviously heir to Iron McNamara, Georgetti was once pierced by an eight-inch splinter which he sent to his father to be exhibited. He earns $28,000 per year, has a barber shave him every day of the race, frequently dines on rice, lobster and beer with Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
...exploiting her age in an advertisement, thus: "I really am 39 years old. I never mind telling my age. As long as a woman doesn't look old, I don't see why birthdays should worry her. . . ." In Who's Who in the Theatre, dimple-kneed Dancer Pennington states that she was born...
...Larry Gaines. a splayfooted, rough-kneed, lazy blackamoor pugilist: a Leicester, England fight against Phil Scott, famed British heavyweight who had been training for four months, got knocked out in the second round...
...eliminate the last shreds of would-be liberalism from this magnificent bequest, and at the same time "scoop" all the other publications who were too weak-kneed to print it, by stating that the will specifically forbade admission to these schools of any member of the Hebraic race...