Word: knees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match the opulence of curves with...
...Buffalo, playing with his friends, Albert Sypniewski, 9, put his foot in front of a moving train, hobbled three blocks to his home on the mangled leg. which had to be amputated below the knee. Said he: "They dared...
Before the initialing took place German Catholics were forced to bow the political knee to Adolf Hitler, hoping all the while that the concordat would safeguard their religious rights. As a peace offering to the Nazis, they dissolved their Catholic Centre Party, the Party which fought Prince Bismarck so stoutly three generations ago. the Party which gave to the German Republic one of its greatest Chancellors, pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working Bachelor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, April 7, 1930 et seq.). Seventy-three Catholic Centre Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission...
Next day Secretary of State Hull put the Press over his knee, spanked it. Few days earlier, complaining that all his actions were "misconstrued" (see p. 17), he had proposed that "the newspapers could help best if they stressed the broad lines of the program and did not particularize." Now he flayed those correspondents who saw ''contradiction" between the U. S. domestic program for business revival and his own brand of low-tariff internationalism. Hardly had he issued his statement when the London Morning Post popped out with a cartoon of Uncle Sam standing on his head...
...Graf slid off the banker's knee. Pressagent Leef plunked her back again as the photographers yammered for more. "Lya, take off your hat," he commanded. She did not want to. Mr. Morgan backed her up: "No, don't take it off. I think it's pretty...