Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian war bonnet is nothing to the sight of Mr. Conant on a mountain top, coatless, hatless, and unkempt. And some day, if the Fates are kind, we may catch a glimpse of him lounging along Quincy St., in a shabby tweed jacket, and trousers breaking slightly around the knee...
Most infant prodigies are unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation appears a youngster who does his own musical thinking, can hold his own in the company of talented grownups. Such a precocity usually causes a sensation, even among hard-boiled critics...
...lady in Eugene, Ore., where much of the film was shot, does not agree. Because black-bearded Abraham Lincoln once dandled her as a child on his knee, she was introduced to clean-shaven Actor Massey, but she angrily refused to sit on Massey's knee for RKO's publicity department. Reason: a clean-shaven Lincoln is a monstrosity. "Why don't you let him play the part?" she shrilled, pointing to a black-bearded extra. "He could do it better than the man you have...
Hours later, a white, shaken Jim Steward left the hospital, went home. Jessie would live, but both legs had been amputated, one at the calf, the other above the knee. The music still went round and round but Jessie could never dance again...
Despite the state supreme court ruling that the fact that a driver had one hand on a girl's knee was not proof that he was grossly negligent. Frank A. Goodwin, registrar of motor vehicles, warned today that he still considered one arm driving improper...