Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...lieutenant, Jack Rubenstein, celebrated by getting out of the Garfield (N. J.) jail with a battered face, swollen right eye, bruised back and broken leg. "He didn't get them here," said Chief of Police Forss. It was Rubenstein's tenth arrest as a result of his strike activities...
...What "nobly 'simple" reply did the Duke of Wellington make when Lord Anglesey suddenly observed, "By God I've lost a leg...
Wellington: [At Waterloo] "Lord Anglesey suddenly observed, 'By God, I've lost my leg!' 'Have you, by God?' replied the Duke...
...spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge's leg; the smoky lady in stepins whom none but Topper can understand; Topper sitting platonically in an ectoplasmic lap ?out of such stuff is compounded a book to be hugged by bored suburbanites, occasional inebriates and all amateurs of good humor...