Word: bareleggedness
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In baseball's never-never land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional...
Tennis for the King. The Betz Club got its first foreign seasoning in June. For the first time since 1938, the top five U.S. women players-Betz, Osborne, Brough, Pat Todd and Florida's Doris Hart-headed for England to play Britain's top women in Wightman Cup...
In the little mountain land, there was no feeling of greatness and only a little pride, but there was plenty of thankfulness and happiness. Fields were heavy with ripening grain. Throughout the smiling countryside, barelegged children, plump and rosy, waved to sleek, swift trains running on Swiss-clocklike schedule. In...
Crowds followed Lieut. General Mark Clark's jeep through the streets. Barelegged young women in summer prints and sportswear promenaded the Corso Umberto. The view indicated that there was not a girdle in Rome.
Victory or no, the fiendish Freshman wanted to add insult to injury. So, strictly from nonconformity, he donned a pair of shorts. His barelegged strides may have brought ohs and ahs from the Radcliffe girls but the only noticeable Yard Cop comment was "ahem!" plus a quick nab for "indecent...