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...after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers to the fact that they are knock-kneed...
...purely maternal policy had involved her deep in gory deeds. For the treacherous massacre on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Biographer Roeder makes her directly responsible, attempts to show that the massacre was no part of a settled policy but a suddenly-enforced expedient to save her weak-kneed royal...
Marriage takes Kit out of the working class, lifts her into the family of a powerful bootlegger named Tom Halsey. Despising her husband, Halsey's weak-kneed son, she breaks away from him as soon as she discovers that the comfort he provides cannot end her restlessness. She loves to drive, gets a job running liquor over the mountains. Once she drives her car into the car of Federal agents to prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt...
...appellation ''late, great" to Louis XVI of France, TIME, Feb. 24? History credits him with being lazy, dull, bumbling, and weak-kneed, lacking in intelligence and will power, more interested in his hobby of locksmithing than reigning France. About all he had was good intentions...
...there is a hitch. This lovely greensward is under the jurisdiction of the hard-hearted Metropolitan District Police. Every afternoon the men in gray swoop down in Neon-lighted cars or rude motorcycles and drive the pleasure seekers from the grass. There are no exceptions. The loveliest bare kneed girl from the halls of Radcliffe, the most pitiful youngster, the most loquacious college boy, all on bicycles are as unwelcome as an epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring with them? Can the Metropolitan District Police find nothing...