Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock" into which is woven its own garter. Stopping at their booth, King Edward VIII pulled up his trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...
...spite of his good friend John Reed's hot tips, he had taken no stock. When his business and night life both ended, he went to England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went...
Next on the docket will come the high hurdles where Harvard's first first of the evening should appear, barring a broken leg on Green's part. There is an outside possibility of Donovan crashing through here, but only the Dartmouth fans really expect it. Then comes the broad jump, where one jump should be enough for Milt to top the 23-foot mark by a considerable margin and win the event...
...Producer Darryl Zanuck by a story in TIME (Feb. 4, 1935), this picture investigates the sad case of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. On April 15, 1865, two horsemen galloped up to Dr. Mudd's door in Charles County, Md. and asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson...
...Joan Tozzer, daughter to Alfred M. Tozzer, professor of Anthropology, in an attempt at the Junior Pair title. Miss Tozzer and Fox went to England last summer where they gave many pair and individual exhibitions in London. The trip ended abruptly when Miss Tozzer turned up with a broken leg and Fox with a wrenched knee...