Word: knees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stiffened in the knee...
...following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee limit required to give the proper external impression of Fascism's internal seriousness...
...Mayor Walker (he is addressed never as "Your Honor" but as "Mister Mayor," like ''Mister President") last week laid a public school corner stone at Coney Island, broke ground for a new subway, endorsed National Hospital Day, held his 6-year-old nephew Paul Burke on his knee at City Hall while the lad was publicly immunized against diphtheria to the boom of flashlights, prepared to attend the Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next September, and be faced with the certain prospect of four...
...commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
...rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven. A few hours later the Order of the Chrysanthemum was bestowed upon Prince Henry?tit for tat?by the owlishly spectacled Emperor...