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Word: crutches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Florida Camps | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...quiz yourself. In accordance with a suggestion by Joseph Kastner of the New York WORLD (TIME, March 22, LETTERS), the approximate pages upon which answers can be run down are indicated in this week's Quiz. Subscribers who concentrate when they read will not need this crutch. 1) In the recent newspaper straw ballot, the total vote was about how many to one against prohibition? (See PROHIBITION.) 2) What nation was nominally responsible for deadlocking the League Council at Geneva? (See THE LEAGUE.) 3) What magazine for April carries a well-documented, brief comparative history of commercial aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...hardy, mentally alert subscribers want this crutch? Does Subscriber Kastner shoot squirrels with a shotgun? Does he, hale and hearty, insist on eating only predigested foods? Does he wear water-wings when swimming? Does he use a bushel basket for a baseball glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost. The fire roared through the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

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