Word: leggedness
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One day the temperature went down to 9° above zero. When the blizzards stopped, the wind blew and the snow drifted. Water froze in canteens ; motorized troops on the move built fires on the steel bottoms of their trucks. In the dark mornings the doughboys climbed out of their...
"Bullets were whining up the street, so we dived behind an inadequate steel phone pole and hydrant. We tried three times to join the others, but each time bullets drove us back. Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were...
Died. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious...
Latest of the fast-growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received...
Sitting at his gigantic mahogany desk (the biggest he could buy at Marshall Field's), stub-legged James Caesar Petrillo, czar of U.S. musicians, picked up the receiver. Mr. Trammell said he would like to see Mr. Petrillo soon in New York. Barked Caesar Petrillo: "I'll come...