Word: kneed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peter Marshall was a skinny, knob-kneed boy, working as an office boy in a steel company in his native Coatbridge, Scotland. He came to the U.S. in 1927, dug ditches, wrestled iron castings in a New Jersey foundry. But Marshall really wanted to be a minister, finally studied three years at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga. In 1937 he became pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. Ten years later he became Senate chaplain of the Republican 80th Congress, was re-elected in the Democratic 81st...
Since 1931, when Cornelius McGillicuddy had his last pennant-winning wonder boys, the Philadelphia Athletics had been a consistent team: the most weak-kneed in the American League. The man the baseball writers once considered a genius came to be regarded as a quaint old character content with teams so cheap that they made a profit even when they finished in the cellar...
Captain Holden of the Crimson finally threw himself in front of Ames, and stopped him. Unfortunately, he was kneed in the chest, which was seriously pushed in. As he was carried off the field, Holden exhorted the team not to worry about him, but to beat Princeton. This they did, and later, when a number of surgeons were having a consultation on whether to operate, Holden sneezed, and his chest returned to normal...
...last year, charged Raiden, he had been sent to Raft by 19-year-old Betty Doss to recover some finery which Raft had given her and then yanked back. While one of Raft's friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave him a shellacking, and then kneed him. So now Raiden sued for $300,000. Commented Raft: "That's pretty good, but I don't know what it's all about." Neither did she, said red-haired Miss Doss...
...ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...