Word: kneeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller fry came flocking. Skeptical Broadwayites made the first of several pseudo-hospitable attempts to drink Oscar under the table- in vain. Columnists and cartoonists ribbed him unmercifully. But his first lecture (all of them were on Beauty) grossed...
...after dinner speaker was more in demand because, after the formal speaking was over, Jim Thomas could generally be found in a corner, regaling his friends with a rare collection of off-color stories. Ever since the night when he dined at Buckingham Palace with the buckles of his knee breeches held together with safety pins, he was one of King George V's favorite politicians...
Notable among the figure paintings were Sunday Morning, a clean, well-fattened woman in an old-rose dressing gown sitting up to a cold fireplace (see cut) ; Fay Read ing, a blonde girl in a slip with High Tide of the Flesh on her knee; Sleeping Girl, another blonde superbly relaxed. Such fleshiness caused lusty Painter Reginald Marsh to exult in the exhibition's catalog: "Everywhere in these paintings is luxury. There is wit and a fine, fat magnificence. . . . Miss Duller has painted this clean, opulent world with a terrible power...
...hits by Lupe Lupien, Art Johns, and Bob Gannett got the Freshman nine off to a first start and gained a 7-4 lead in the first two innings as the Yearlings defeated Nichols Junior College 8-4 yesterday on Soldiers Field. Frank Foley, starting Freshman slabman, twisted his knee sliding into second in the fourth and was forced to retire, Lefty Edinburg finishing up the game for him. Harvard box score: ab r h po a e Heckel, 3b 5 2 1 1 2 1 Prouty, rf 4 1 2 2 0 0 Gannett...
...with many college aggregations this year, the chief Princeton uncertainty is in the box. Shorty Morris, who gave the Crimson among others considerable difficulty last year, has developed a trick knee, throwing the burden of the mound work upon a second veteran Dick Bell...