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Knee cap of a sheep worn as a garter to prevent leg muscle cramps...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...
...line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
...Senate ("World's Greatest Club"), the scene was less proletarian. Camaraderie of a more formal sort marked the occasion, whose dignity was impaired only for an instant when cut-awayed Col. Halsey, the Senate's popular secretary, lost a garter...
Hawk-nosed, bemonocled Conservative Sir Austen, Knight of the Garter, then crossed from the Government to the Opposition side of the House, sat down beside Mr. Jones, warmly pressed his hand and sympathized in his trouble...