Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasant near-basso voice. But only two Nashville people witnessed the triumph-his mother-in-law and his teacher. Because the Metropolitan Opera does not broadcast, Mrs. MacPherson turned off her radio, heard Joseph MacPherson Jr., 2, warble the songs he learned on his basso-papa's knee...
Team B will play the Harvard Club of Boston on the courts here. It is not certain that R. L. Debevoise, who has just recovered from a knee injury, will be available...
...black and white. Instead of a "dress shirt" she wore a white crepe de chine blouse. Instead of a "dress tie" she wore a white crepe band around her black cloche hat. Instead of a "dress suit" she wore a black silk cape, and simulated the effect of diplomatic knee breeches by having her black silk dress fall barely below the knees...
...Coles Philips would say, it's small enough to fit any girl's stocking as well as to rest upon her knee--a sentence which suggests that "Oddly Enough" is a very fine book. An arrangement in black. Mr. McCord in the words of Whistler implies that he has attempted a sortie into the field of etching. The implication may be accepted. His sortie is quite successful...
...witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped in adoration before its bosom (now in the Fogg). No vandal hand but mine had disturbed it for eleven hundred years...