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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another foxtrot, with Miss Rogers in a crosstime routine; 4) a final ballroom number with her. For those who are tired of the hoofing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovereign | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...that tonight throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets when two langorous eyes are pleading. It is the duty of every Harvard man, and every man throughout the country, to maintain his own integrity this year, to be firm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARTS AND FLOWERS | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...Tozzer, professor of Anthropology, in an attempt at the Junior Pair title. Miss Tozzer and Fox went to England last summer where they gave many pair and individual exhibitions in London. The trip ended abruptly when Miss Tozzer turned up with a broken leg and Fox with a wrenched knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BERNARD FOX COMPETES IN SKATING TRIALS HERE | 2/20/1936 | See Source »

...issue two months ago came upon what at first glance looked like a splendid reproduction of Raphael's famed La Belle Jardiniere, now in the Louvre. A second glance shot eyebrows high. The Virgin Mary was feeding the infant Jesus from a modern nursing bottle, while at her knee the infant St. John looked on hungrily. The whole parody was an advertisement for Nestlé's baby food. A line at the top of the page indicated that this was the first of a series of full-color parodies exploiting the beauties of maternity and Nestl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masters & Maternity | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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