Word: knocks
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...only use that I could possibly make of a coon-skin coat is to cover my embarrassing set of knock-knees," was the statement issued by Stanley Lupino yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, when questioned as to his opinion on Fanny Brice's recent lament for a fur coat. "I might use such a coat in a game of hide-and-seek," he added...
...Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich . . . was . . . close to Roosevelt" (TlME, Feb. 15). As close as is a boxer taking a knock-out to his antagonist who gives...
...TIME on his desk where every person can see that there is one magazine that is not afraid to come out and say what it should say at the right time. Keep up the good work. Here is a little motto that use quite often: "You came in without knocking. Please go out the same way." This printed on a card and on the inside of the office door will be seen by everyone going out. They will ask what it means. Explain that it means one should not knock a good thing but boost, help it along...
...with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...Manhattan, sloe-eyed Italian children competed in a baby show. Some were knock-kneed, some astigmatic, round-shouldered, swivel-hocked, unduly thin; some spilled their milk with mild equability, as if a saucepan in their stomachs were softly frothing over. But well-nigh perfect was Anthony Chieco. He was fat. He was serene. "What do you feed him on?" doctors asked the mother. "Spaghetti," shrugged enormous Mrs. Chieco. "He eats moocha spaghetti, and he drinks da vino- wine. Madre di Dio, he drinks it, oouf! like ees water...