Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When rayon appeared it was at first hoped that it would completely replace silk as raw material. It never did because, among other reasons, it lacked silk's elasticity (a rayon stocking, for example, wrinkles instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that...
...Connor are distant Corcoran cousins). His mother's people were pre-Revolutionary New Englanders. His education, after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud to the old gentleman, who followed him with an English trot to study the parsing. Dante and Montaigne were the young scholar's favorite writers. From those golden days...
...late George Wesley Bellows was once sketching at Mouquin's, a Manhattan restaurant favored by society in his day. Bellows liked Mouquin's less for its food and company than for its mirrors. Hunched at the bar with a sketch pad concealed on his knee, he could use the other patrons as his unconscious models. On this occasion a furious little gentleman approached the artist and charged that Bellows was ogling his wife. Bellows was very peaceable but very tall. He rose, slowly. When he reached six feet the challenger blanched and turned away...
...Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch it as a U. S. diversion. Said...
Said Dr. Brockway, who has scientifically pulled more legs than any other physician in the world: "I have no hesitancy in stating that in the hands of competent men this operation is safe and practical when the lengthening is done below the knee." Lengthening of the thigh is more difficult because the muscles are tougher and resist stretching, and the position of the nerves makes any slight infection dangerous...