Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the Avenue from the reviewing stand pulled manifest inebriates out of line before the notables could see them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama...
Varsity soccer hopes received a blow at practice yesterday when Captain and starting fullback Richard G. P. Powell '88 wrenched his left knee. An old ailment recurrence, the injury will put the Crimson leader on the sideline for ten days doctors said...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers was not feeling in top form either and she was the mainstay of the British (Wimbledon Champion Dorothy Round stayed at home). In the first day's play at Forest Hills last week, Alice Marble beat Ruth Mary Hardwick, Helen Jacobs beat...
...social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully but one day went to his father with his violin and told him he wanted to stay on the stage. The old man sadly took the violin, broke it across his knee. In later years the Weisenfreunds were partially recompensed by having their other two sons become musicians. Joseph is now a musical arranger at Warner Brothers' studios. Al is also in Hollywood, looking for a job as a violinist...