Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Wireless Operator Collins saw feathers and found what was in the cubby hole, he felt more than ever like God. He hunted Sheik, who arched against his leg as usual, purring in mad anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...
Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
Crime. The thug-belabored Manhattan, Playwrights Samuel Shipman and John Hymer brought comfort. Your real criminal, they divulged, never shoots in the head or abdomen for death, but merely in the arm or leg for legitimate profit. Eugene Fenmore (James Rennie), head of a high-principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester...
Last week, for the 27th time, Death came to a Moffat Tunnel workman. King F. Weston and E. J. Shepard were carrying a burned-out electric motor when Mr. Weston leaned against an open switch, crumpled, died. Mr. Shepard slipped, crushed his leg beneath the motor...
...night and his wife's lapdog, he said: "I had to choose between sleeping beside the beast or not sleeping with my wife. A terrible dilemma, but I had to take it or leave it. I resigned myself. The dog was less accommodating. I have the marks on my leg to show what he thought about the matter...