Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating, by a tremendously hard fought win over the Hon. W. G. Brownlow of Ireland, his undoubted superiority over anyone left in the tournament since the departure of Jones. Handicapped by a wrenched knee, the blond strapper turned in a 75 for the 6,738-yd., par 74 course...
Ahmad Fuad therefore bestirred himself little during the week. Upon his knee he caressed now and then the Princesses Fawzieh and Faiza, aged five and three, his daughters...
...reporter. From there he went to the New York Times, and from there to Washington to free lance, until Publisher Hearst, whose gum-chewing public dotes on names like Vanderbilt, gobbled him up to write signed articles. There is evidence that the youth received lasting inspiration at the Hearstian knee, for his journalistic activities ever since have been in the gum-chewing field...
...surgeon motioned to his assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...