Word: kneeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Britain, famed unionist leader ("Thank God for Moscow!"), went to the hospital because of pains in his right leg which he had injured during his 21 years underground in the mines and hurt again when in 1926 he scuffled with non-unionists. Forthwith, surgeons amputated the leg above the knee...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
...spiders, fishing worms, the cold brook; awed by the imaginary male recumbent under an umbrella. In "Webs," an overintellectualized conception, Miss Enters struggled ineffectually with the jazz age, moved hysterically to a Symphony" potpourri of and Cesar "Papa Franck's Loves "D Mama," Minor ended up on one knee like Al ("Mammy") Jolson...
...team gained revenge, 2 to 1, and this afternoon the definite winner of the series will be decided. The University team will start as in its previous contests except for one change. T. F. Waters II '33, will take the place of W. D. Carter '31, who injured his knee in the game against Dartmouth last Friday...
...Texas roast its blacks alive, Let racketeers extend and thrive, Let gangsters flourish and survive By methods grim and gory! But Knee-high shorts shall still preserve The noble mind, the fearless nerve And still shall culture's highest curve Remain Columbia's glory...