Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
...when the last bewildered rookie rolls off the train with his lumpy duffel bag, the division is born. Under the barking of the noncoms it grows from infancy to gangling, slack-kneed adolescence. It marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come...
...Duke of Kent, but the Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...
Just about gone are the days of Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and their good old-fashioned horror pictures. Occasionally one of them crops up again with a week-kneed off-shoot of Frankenstein, but every effort fails to recapture the mood. Originally, Stevenson's "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" was one of the standout pictures of this melodramatic school; in today's guise, it is merely another problem in psychology...
...Ziegfeld Girls turn out like Sheila. Two who glorify differently are sultry Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr), who discovers that the violinist husband she left behind is more exciting than the Follies, and knock-kneed Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), who graduates to top billing as a singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does...