Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a half-mile from shore. But the swimmer turned upon his encouragers eyes darkened and guttering. He was a lost man now, though they did not know it; he was drowned head and heel in black water, the fathomless seas of fatigue. The tide set its knee in his chest and pushed him back toward France. Once he was only 600 yards from shore; but then for 30 yards he was borne back, unable to move his arms. Abruptly, with a tremendous agony of the will, he rallied; a little fire came back to his blood and he began...
Five thousand Endeavor delegates took up the matter of amusement-the old query whether a dancing foot and praying knee could be joined together. There was no final pronouncement on dancing except that no dance may be given under...
...roaring and Greb, never unhappy, hitting back. Referee Purdy scuttled out of the way as best he could in the next rounds, while Greb came in, his windmill arms striking four times to Walker's once. In the seventh round, Referee Purdy was knocked down, suffered a dislocated knee. A round for Greb. A round for Walker. Hardy Referee Purdy, still in the ring despite his pain, but tiring badly now, was knocked down again. He continued to hobble about in the 14th round when Greb beat Walker's face into the likeness of a suet pudding, flattened...
...President Coolidge's chief advisers," expressed its dislike of unofficial discussion of the debt situation, and urged prominent tourists to hold their peace. That part of the press which is friendly to the Administration echoed the sentiments and flayed the talking tourists as "meddlers," "muddlers," "hand-kissers," "knee-crookers," "ax-grinders," "sycophants." The result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners...
...does dance. His dancing of Alger's "Hobby Horse Hop" stopped the opera completely and several hundred graduates broke up the seats; later, in a savage interpretation of the Charleston, to the accompaniment of an obligato on Mr. Moynahan's squeal-horn. Mr. Wilson did things with his knee-joints that didn't seem at all reasonable. There is no use trying to pin his charm down to paper, but you'll come out of "Laugh It Off" raving about Mr. Wilson, so why shouldn't we? If this be Sophomores, let us make the most of them...