Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just as much a part of this institution as is the dome over this building." Since Harry's chief functions are guarding the committee's door and running errands, observers believed last week that Harry would continue to sit by the door, let his assistant do the leg work. If that young buck (to be chosen by Harry) serves as wisely & well for the next 63 years he, too, may get an assistant. That would be in the year...
...bomb thrown by an insurgent Korean some years ago lodged 32 splinters in Mr. Shigemitsu's leg and forced its amputation. Today he stumps briskly about, aided by a heavy, crooked cane, and last week he was up night after night, stumping into the Soviet Foreign Office at all hours, even after Comrade Litvinoff had gone home to bed, to have just one more go at such able Communist diplomats as bald Boris Stomoniakoff, the Vice-Commissar...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...little too outmoded. The device used to circumvent this possibility in The Go-Getter is the elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck of the dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead, a heroic survivor who has lost a leg in that comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later...
Second most important U. S. Russian is Major Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky, who lost a leg for Russia while flying in the War, has lately zoomed into military importance by producing what is generally regarded as the world's fastest pursuit plane. Last week he flew his chunky ship from Belleville, Ill. to Dayton, Ohio at an average speed of 321 m.p.h. Other prominent Russian designers...