Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven weeks ago Wisconsin's Democratic Governor, 69-year-old Albert Schmedeman, troubled with varicose veins, put down his foot unsteadily while descending from a speakers' platform, slipped, injured his ankle. Infection set in and his leg was amputated above the knee (TIME. Oct. 15). Howard Greene, his Republican opponent, declared on the stump that it was cruel of the Democratic organization to force a crippled man to continue the campaign. Last week political quidnuncs estimated that, although Mr. Greene had not been as inept as Mr. Gay, he, too, had lost votes by his remark...
...power" became in France "le moteur flottant" of Citroën. It helped, but not enough. This year, slipping perilously near to bankruptcy, M. Citroën struck out with a new car of his own which has made Paris sit up and stare. It has front wheel drive, "knee action" on all four wheels and lines phenomenally low and streamy...
...only two men who are out of the Princeton fracas are Frank Little field and Charlie Kessler. The latter has been suffering from injuries all season and has now retired for the year in order to have an operation performed on his knee...
...that it never knew the new boy either. Sandroyd School, Surrey, so small that it is omitted from most British school directories, settled back to its usual existence last week, after the exciting thought that the pale little boy of 11, the one with the bangs and the bony knees, had suddenly become a King, and for a moment the most spotlighted person in the world. Before breakfast Peter II of Jugoslavia was hauled from his dormitory bed and brought down to the headmaster's office. His old tutor, a man named Parrott, was there too. The boy learned...
...great Egyptian Hall of London's Mansion House last week deft waiters in knee breeches had removed most of the elaborate silver service and distributed the nuts and raisins. The King's Health had been drunk, gentlemen were free to smoke. The occasion was the annual dinner of the retiring Lord Mayor to the merchants and bankers of London. Bull-voiced, the Lord Mayor cried...