Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...
...broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner so lavish that Ak-Sar-Ben hastily barred such parties in the future...
...home last week. Master Sergeant Frederic Hensel, 26, of Corbin, Ky., got his crippling wounds from a mine on Okinawa. He was walking ahead of his companion to protect him from mines when he stepped on one himself. The explosion blew off both legs above the knee, his left arm above the elbow, mangled his right hand so badly that it had to be removed on the ship home...
Canadian Scots protested, tradition or no. They pointed out that the Vancouver Glengarry Girls Pipe Band wears knee-revealing kilts and that no Gael feels affronted. Said Robert Fiddes, president of the Vancouver St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society: "A kilt improves the look of any lassie." A regulation kilt, he declared, should fall just above the knee, not below. A true Scot is proud to show his knees, no matter how bony, and a lassie should be allowed to do the same-"she certainly has more to show...
...tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...