Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormously stimulating prospect of a Budge v. Perry final, the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from...
...probation are Captain Emile Dubiel, who was a stellar end last year, Don Jackson, who bore the brunt of the line bucks, George Blackwood, another back, and Thomas Husband, a line man. In addition to these who were expected back is Leo Ecker, who is still incapacitated by a leg injury suffered in the hockey season last winter...
...bedded in Omaha's Fontenelle Hotel. By the time he woke his bag of speeches had been found and had caught up with him. At breakfast with 1,000 Nebraska and Iowa Republicans, he got a laugh as he squirmed to his feet, and said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands...
Seversky Aircraft Corp. is named for its 42-year-old founder, president, chief designer and test pilot, Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky. A short, slim, kinky-haired Russian, "Sascha" de Seversky became a flyer in the Russian Navy during the War, lost his right leg in his first engagement, came back from the hospital to shoot down 13 German planes. Awarded the highest military honors, he was equally renowned for inventing a combination pontoon and ski which allowed Russian Naval planes to continue in service during winter. Just as the Revolution started, he was appointed to an aviation commission...
...chartered a locomotive which she drove herself at 80 m.p.h. to overtake it. She was supposed to have paid Pianist Paderewski $3,000 to play for her and one guest at tea. When Mascagni conducted at the opening of an opera season, Mrs. Gardner did not let a broken leg keep her away. She sat in her box with the leg in a cast, her back to the stage...