Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with Tom Sawyer in a haunted cave. . . . The old lady chuckled and bobbed her bonnet; she rubbed one eye until it was clear and glanced sharply from side to side like a bird. Let the people stare at her if they wanted...
...gods commonly portrayed in painting and sculpture the jaguar was second in importance only to the plumed serpent, Kukulcan. This serpent of ours has no plume, but he does have a bird's foot with distended claws at the extremity of a sort of dragon's leg attached to his body. This foot is held angrily below his open jaws. These would not be recognizable as a snake's jaws by a person unfamiliar with Maya art, which advanced over a course of conventionalization that took it to the pole opposite that of such realistic portrayal...
...English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
Never, since "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", have we seen Mr. Barrymore in a screen role that fitted him better than the one of Ahab Ceeley. And indeed the two roles have much in common. Ahab, through the treachery of his half-brother, loses a leg to Moby Dick, the whale, who has cost the life of more than one boat's crew. The same brother alienates Ahab's sweetheart, and makes him bitter against all mankind, and as the film unrolls, we see Ahab's character changing before our eyes much the same way as in the dual role...
...average is represented by 267, and belies the impression that the team is weak with the stick. The respectable size of the team's batting average is due, however, largely to the high average compiled by Burns, Sophomore centerfielder who at present is out of the game with a leg injury. Burns was clouting the ball at a heavy rate in the first two games of the season, but as he has only been at bat on five occasions, his present average, and that of the team, is probably a bit bloated. Burns, with his four hits in two games...