Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the 1934 season. Di Maggio twisted some tendons in his knee getting out of a taxi. The Yankees let their option run last year, partly to give him more seasoning but more to make absolutely sure that he was not a physical wreck. There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut...
Keep cool all over all day in B.V.D. These loose fitting, coat cut undershirts and knee length drawers and union suits are the favourites of college men who wear the best. Write for booklet "Cool as a Sea Breeze." It's free...
...Original words: I came from Alabama Wid my banjo on my knee, I'm g'wan to Louisiana My true love for to see, It rained all night the day I left, The weather it was dry, The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry. Oh! Susanna, Oh, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee...
...wreath on a dead elephant's monument; staging the real wedding of a clown in Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next...
...changed him. His trip might have been a commercial failure but it gave him a sound commercial training. When he got back to London he laid away his knee-breeches, cut his hair, became the popular playwright of his generation...