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Word: kneed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cycles In Manhattan | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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