Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately for some people he writes his own plays, and aims them straight at the blunt heads of the middle-class. His purpose is to make people happy, and in the cheapness of his conception he can see only such trite comedy props as boot-leg whiskey, puppy-love, and husband vs. wife warfare in three rounds. As a playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually...
...valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
Watters in the Haughton 600 yards will attempt to gain a leg the trophy recently presented in memory of P. D. Haughton '99. He will have the same opposition which Haggerty ran up against Saturday night over the same distance. Leness of M. I. T. who beat Haggerty, has twice trailed Watters in outdoor meets in years past...
...President's father, having lost the use of one leg (TIME, Jan. 4), suffered the loss of the use of the other. His condition was pronounced comfortable, not critical, but it was feared that he might not regain the use of his nether limbs...
...Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until 1920. When he returned, the indomitable Marie (backed by King Ferdinand) saw to it that he married the not positively homely Princess Helen of Greece. Zyzis is the mother of three children, whom Carol admits to be his. The Princess Helen...