Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should Mr. Shields be so unfortunate as to fracture his hip, lie in a hospital eight weeks, flat on his back in a Bradford frame, leg being stretched by ropes and pulleys and weights, said leg being held immobile by a yard-long sandbag on either side, an alert physician and a bevy of nurses standing by like eagle-eyed engineers, he will learn that one may be kept from "tossing about in the throes of sleep" until he may hatch out a whole dozen eggs "scrambling" nary a one, and no "marvel" at all. "This astonishing muscular control" will...
...Famous for his hatred of varnish, Directo van Puyvelde has cleaned up many a Flemish masterpiece, disclosed last Christmas on nymph's leg and one baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...bank of a small lake, with a minimum of excavation-a balanced set of simple building-masses rimmed by open terraces. The interior gracefully conformed to requirements with: 1) a stage adaptable to every kind of entertainment, 2) ample dressing and property rooms, 3) wide aisles and plenty of leg room, 4) full visibility and sound acoustics, 5) an art gallery in the lobby for leg-and-neck-stretching between acts...
...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...
About midway in the first period the Crimson lost the services of Sophomore starter Bob James, who had returned to the fray to replace Fred Heckel almost immediately after the first team entered the game. James suffered a recurrence of the leg injury he received during football season...