Word: limped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the keyboard of his stomach Steinway, his lady fans go limp, men smile wanly, and the management gets ready to peel off up to $4,000 a week...
...varsity's loss to Holy Cross Wednesday, Smith had piled up nine points and was playing rebounds well, when he suddenly began to limp badly while running up the court. Time was called, Smith was taken out of the game, and Stevenson went...
Stevenson played the rest of the game, and ended it without any sign of a limp. Yesterday morning his foot hurt, and he had X-rays taken, which indicated either a broken bone in the arch of his right foot or a bad bruise...
...whole thing is shoddily fitted out with desperate gags, limp and feeble bits of farce, and characters who make depressing conversationalists. As satire on an ill-advised lust for money, it is merely the potboiler calling the kettle black...
...enviable reputation: Britons (who pride themselves in such matters) consider him one of their best living landscape painters. Last week Kitchens was bidding for a reputation in an altogether different field: his new exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries consisted almost entirely of reclining nudes. Moreover, the limp, heavy figures, painted in broad strokes of summery colors, were an instant hit. Kitchens' switch to nudes, said the London Sunday Times, "has wrought a double change in his pictures, making them both richer in color and broader in construction...