Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the president of the University, there is no figure familiar to more admiring Freshmen than Professor Merriman. Walking up and down the platform or rocking back and forth on his desk with a seven-foot pointer under his knee, the colorful lecturer of History 1, seems for one hour every Wednesday and Friday to be making Harvard history himself...
...pony full into Hitchcock. At the same moment Hopping rode into him. Hitchcock and Hopping rode off after the ball. Alone, Williams reeled in the saddle, then fell to the ground. Hustled to a hospital, he was found to have a refracture of an old break below the right knee. Assistant Manager Neil McCarthy went to No. 1. Aidan Roark to back, and the West, with its captain gone, scored only one more goal in the last three chukkers, to lose 12 to 8. Of the East's twelve goals, four were driven in by Hopping, one from...
...beaten man. At the beginning of the seventh, they counseled him, cruelly, to "go on in." Stumbling, Jeby tried to obey. Brouillard, still fresh after six rounds of arduous butchery, smashed his ribs and then his face with jolting lefts. Jeby stepped backwards, staggered, slipped slowly down to one knee, then fell flat on the canvas, face down. When Referee Pete Hartley's count reached eight, he dragged himself to one knee, then pitched forward while the count went...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...