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Word: leg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lorry lumbered along a street in Flatbush, (residential) Brooklyn. It was packed tight with brick. On its side was the dusty legend. GREINER CONTRACTING CO., INC. A child screamed. A few hours later surgeons amputated what was left of her crushed left leg. Lorries of the Greiner company continued to haul brick through Brooklyn streets. Bricklayers continued to slap their trowels for the Audley Clarke Co., which had contracted with the Greiner company for the delivery of the brick. This was seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lex, Legs | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...more laughs than are usually forth-coming in what the producers label "comedy". She and Neil Hamilton carry on as the girl and boy reporters who snag the big news story of the year. The prize incident is when The Boy spills a bottle of ink down his trouser leg. "It's only ink" says She, as she watches it trickle. Does one laugh in a case like that...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

Arriving in Rochester on the first leg of the journey, the men will be entertained by the Harvard Club of Rochester at their annual' dinner, after which they will visit the Eastman Conservatory of Music. Following the opening concert in the evening, the musicians will adjourn to a dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley for their daughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS LEAVE CHRISTMAS DAY | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself a champion of honest government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Post-Dispatch | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...back seat of a car belonging to one Mike Scaffano. There she built her nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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