Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
...were forced to take the few shots that they were allowed, from long range. In the last session Coach Wachter relieved his first string players at frequent intervals and the reserves held the invaders on even terms. Jones, who was scheduled to start at left forward, injured his leg in practice Monday night and was unable to play. The starting Bear line-up played the entire game...
...rubber past Kaehrle in the middle of the last session. In a last minute drive the losers found the Harvard cage twice to finish the evening's scoring. Captain Cady, of the Yale sextet, was carried from the ice just before the final whistle with a badly injured leg, after playing a brilliant game...
...imported into the U. S. used to have it once in a while. After their little toes decayed and dropped off, other toes were liable to become infected. One case is on medical record where such piecemeal, painless degeneration took place 60 times until the patient's entire leg was gone. Medicines are no good...
...gone into convulsions over such burlesquers as the carpenter scene in the Ziegfeld Follies several years ago. The Adagio Classique in this Bughouse Caebaret is much along the same lines. We recommend any show where one strong man misses his footing and slips down into his partner's trouser leg. That is our idea of something funny...