Word: knees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stick to Your Guns." The long night session ending in three deadlock ballots, Governor Roosevelt followed intently by air. When the voting started after daybreak he took a sheet of paper and kept tally on his knee. When the third vote failed to produce a nominee, he sent a sizzling telegram to Chicago...
...bones were dressed up in his own garments, topped off with a wax effigy of his head. As guarded now in an old box in the Anatomical Museum of University College, London, Jeremy Bentham sits with his skull at his feet, his favorite stick, "Dapple," on his knee. Last week, at the dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death, he was trotted out on show, for his will stipulated that at any commemorative gathering he should be "stationed in such a part of the room as to the assembled company shall seem meet...
...page in knee breeches fluttered a bundle of papers up to the clerk's desk as the Senator, his voice low and weary, explained to his colleagues that they would have to wait for printed copies. Two days later Senator Smoot presented his committee's report (again apologizing for the delay in supplying members with printed copies). Two days after that he formally opened debate with a painstaking, unexciting speech about his billion-dollar tax bill, supposed to balance the Budget and preserve Public Credit...
...pitcher, 20-year-old Bob Brown, who proved far more efficient than Brooklyn's famed Arthur ("Dazzy") Vance who opposed him and allowed only five hits, was horrified by news that got out after the game was over. Not only had firstbaseman Arthur ("The Great") Shires torn a knee ligament by colliding with Thirdbaseman Stripp of Brooklyn in the ninth inning; on being hospitalized, he had found that he was also suffering from a broken nose. It had been fractured by a bouncing grounder in the first inning...
...first time anywhere" in order to attract the musically alert. Fifteen years ago Eva Gauthier established a reputation as a sensitive purveyor of interesting, untried songs. At her debut in 1917 she sang the first Stravinsky songs ever sung in the U. S. In 1924 when skirts were at knee-length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched her, she is back again giving U. S. concerts. Already she has sung in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Scranton...