Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite bad. Otherwise Johnny Dooley, almost always, and Joe Cook, featured, but less consistently, can wheedle laughs from their audience and furnish amusement, never hilarious. The chorus, so integral a part of every revue, must be particularly brainy. Condemn the chorus and it leaves the show scarcely a leg to stand...
...read TIME from cover to cover, and to show you how up to date it is in getting the news, I got last week's issue on Friday Eve., Jan. 7, and read of the lady having her wooden leg taken away from her on account of not keeping her payment up. The next day, Sat., Jan. 8, I read the same account in my daily paper as per clipping attached. That's going some, isn't it? JOHN VIAZANKO...
...years red-blooded U. S. college athletes have thrilled to the classic vaunt: "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." All that was golden about the glorious '90s is bound up in those few quiet words. According to legend, they were uttered after he had broken his leg in the Princeton game by Philip M. Brett, Rutgers football captain in 1891, now a Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said...
...clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung her to the floor and bit her in the arm and leg...
Died. John ("Uncle Johnny") Demarest, 98, member of "the oldest married couple in the world"; at Wyckoff, N. J., following gangrene in his right leg. Two years ago the couple celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, when more than 1,000 neighbors and friends visited them, and President Coolidge wrote them a letter...