Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...
...famous coach will be shown down on one knee, in his favorite attitude. Beside him will be reproduced the runner with the ball and the tackler...
...team, and is expected to be the backbone of the runners. He will be supported by E. C. Haggerty '27 and J. N. Watters '26 of last year's squad, and by L. B. R. Barker Jr. '26, who was out of the running last fall with a bad knee. Swede and Ryan will not bg able to come out this year...
...students who go to sit at Mother Oxford's ancient knee frequently find themselves embarrassed by lack of the right sort, and extent, of preparation. The same applies to U.S. students entering other English universities, to many entering U. S. institutions. These facts, and the fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American...
...Merry Widow. Love's riotous comedy supreme gave Director Erich von Stroheim a thousand opportunities to present the tintinnabulating toe, the flirting knee. Much to his credit, he seized only the hundred best, and between times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...