Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloody civil war of unsuspected dangers of peace. "Spanish women!" read one, "Beware of the cocktail! Beware of the one-piece bathing suit! Beware of the cigaret!" At San Sebastian, fashionable beach city, he admitted to blinking at the spectacle of girls swathed in bathing dresses that reached their knees, learned that bathing suits must carry knee-length skirts and have tops that reach the neck. Penalty for less bathing suit: $18 fine. Women cannot lie down on Spanish beaches, and men must wear tops as well as trunks. Last year Pugilist Paolino Uzcudun tried to beat...
...nowhere bloomed a fairer flower for Hoosier politicians to gaze upon than their radiantly handsome master, Paul Vories McNutt, returning home to do some hoeing in his own back row. For Paul McNutt's Presidential hopes, carefully nursed through many a long winter, were at last up knee-high with the corn...
...Israel hospitalized his patient last week, called in two colleagues and an X-ray technician. The X-ray photographs showed that she was carrying in her belly what doctors call a lithopedian ("stone baby")-a retained fetus which has calcified. It was in the normal knee-chest position, head down and perfectly formed. Obviously the baby had died just at full term. Other lithopedians have been recorded, but they were invariably formless round masses. Dr. Israel decided that he had the only full-term lithopedian known to medicine...
...months ago, however, that, with World's Fair crowds in the offing, this was to be no ordinary summer. The World's Fair began by knocking show business groggy; but by last week, when the first of the summer musicals opened, show business was up on one knee, with a chance of keeping its feet during the rest of the bout...
...Capitol rotunda, awaiting Their Majesties, members of Congress twitted stogy-chewing Vice President John Nance Garner about his formal duds, inquired what sort of curtsy he would drop when the big moment came. In response, reported Trout, the Vice President grasped two velvet ropes for support, did knee-bends until a "shhh" warned of Their Majesties' approach...