Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, Principessa Jane di San Faustino (born Miss Jane Campbell) never stays in a palace in Venice, but has had an apartment in the Excelsior-Palace Hotel. Lido, for many years, holding court in front of her capanna on the beach daily, where (even during the era of knee-length frocks) she has been a well-marked figure with her white hair and her long simple white gowns...
Other new rules prohibit "diving" tackles, flying wedge formation on the kickoff, substitutions except for injury unless time-out has been called for some other reason, hard knee or elbow pads, "striking" with the hand or forearm by defense linesmen. They are the most extensive changes in football rules since 1906. By last week many U. S. colleges had tried them out in warm-up games...
...born wept bitterly all of one evening just as some guests were assembling for dinner. I stood it as long as I could, then I went to the telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after...
...taller by 2⅛ in. than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
...crowd and the photographers' cries for "more action'' scared the trout away but the presidential fly whisked neatly to & fro, caught no trees or brushes. Then the President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from the Marine Corps corral, rode it at a walk up & down the mountain trails while shutters clucked, cranks whirled...