Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals. In St. James's Palace last week he bowed the knee to his sovereign as a Premier in the British Commonwealth of Nations, a position he has held since 1924, then promptly proved that, no matter what his official position, South Africa is still his only loyalty...
...useless. Game was so scarce he had to lie on his back, lure seals, which he munched raw, by waving his feet in the air. Three dogs froze and Adventurer Irwin lashed himself in the traces to pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about me. Mail has been...
...Loan Corp., created NRA, substituted beer for Prohibition, confiscated all the gold in the U. S., appropriated $3,300,000.000 for public works, established CCC, TVA, FERA. AAA, cut veterans' pensions and, for good measure, put J. P. Morgan on the witness stand and a midget on his knee...
...around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were his passion. In 1886 he shocked all Philadelphia and got himself fired as instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy when he asked a young lady art student to take off her clothes and substitute for a professional model who failed to turn...
...Bill Davis, a member of the 1933 Freshman team, and Lorrin Woodman, who could on occasion, come down from 155 pounds, are also strong contenders. Dave Tufts, promising in the sport, had won two matches as heavyweight before he was temporarily put out of the running by an infected knee, which also kept him from midyear exams...