Word: leggedness
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I am disgusted with this last issue, April 17. On p. 21 you speak of Mrs. Roosevelt, the First Lady of the land, whom we all respect and admire as "long-legged." I am ashamed of you.
Long-legged, youthful-looking Powel Crosley Jr. towered above a tiny automobile at the Indianapolis motor speedway one day last week while his grandson broke a bottle of gasoline on its nose and 200 Crosley Corp. dealers applauded the christening. Then Mr. Crosley tucked his six-foot-four frame comfortably...
On Good Friday morning, a gracious, energetic, long-legged lady swept into an office on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to finger two swatches of sheer blue woolen cloth and exclaim to a cackling bevy of fashion reporters: "Isn't it nice that we chose shades which look so...
Strangely enough these words had fundamental relation to U. S. foreign policy. For the long-legged lady was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and the swatches were materials for dresses, presented by the wool-raisers of Britain and the U. S., which Mrs. Roosevelt and Britain's Queen Elizabeth will...
U. S. historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash.