Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As an infant, Henry could toddle about only with difficulty because he was badly club-footed and on his left foot he had only one toe, the great. His right foot had no toes at all. But at the ankle there was a movable, thumblike protuberance. This, as he grew...
Playing without the services of Captain Pease and giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the...
For four years in New York "Abie's Irish Rose" has borne up bravely under the condemnation and ridicule of the dramatic critics. It will play to full houses and the resultant full cash boxes in Boston regardless of what the critics say. The natural temptation is to follow the...
On that evening Paul Berlenbach, a onetime taxi-driver with an extraordinarily brutal and stupid face and enormous muscles, won the world's light-heavyweight championship from shifty, tired Mike McTigue. His methods was to plough flat-footed after the Irishman, taking two punches to one for the occasional...
An orchestra tinkled dreamily in the empty ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf, Manhattan. Empty? But no. For some 25 four-footed creatures glided over its glazed parquetry. The music stopped, the 25 four-footed creatures split apart, after the fashion of multiplying atoms, into 50 two-footed creatures. They were...