Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany. Fusion mayors were elected before, about once in a generation, and on the whole their election was all to Tammany's advantage. After the city had been run to the verge of bankruptcy where there was little profit left in running it and scandal was getting knee deep, it paid to let a Fusion mayor clean house and undertake the unpopular duty of raising taxes and cutting expenses until the city was once more a profitable institution for Tammany to run. And no Fusion mayor was ever reelected...
...least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name his own candidate for mayor even in his own borough. By compromising with one faction he was able to beat the third which was in favor of bending the knee to the New Deal and the leaders of the other boroughs and accepting their ticket. Then, three days later Leader Dooling died. So, in the Democratic primary in September, bereaved Tammany, with its own ranks split, will try to nominate a candidate for mayor opposed by the political machines...
Returning belatedly from the Coronation of George VI, James Watson Gerard, Wartime U. S. Ambassador to Germany, commented, ''The Americans who wore knee breeches at the ceremony showed a fine set of legs. There wasn't a knocking knee or bandy leg in the whole outfit...
Around Boothbay harbor and Wiscasset last week wormdiggers were working night and day to meet the demand of an unusually good fishing season. At low tide the diggers wade around in knee-deep mud, combing wrigglers to the surface with long-tined clam rakes. A lucky day's haul is 1,000 worms but the average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask...
...There are many leaders of intelligence and honesty in the Democratic Party. There are, however, no men in the Democratic Party or any other party who reach knee-high in stature, mentally and morally, to Franklin Roosevelt...