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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...They saw 13 steers bulldogged. In bulldogging, the cowboy gallops up to the steer, seizes its horns, slides from his horse and throws the steer on its side by leverage on its horns. Mrs. Coolidge looked away as a steer bulldogged by one Nowata Slim of Oklahoma broke its leg, was shot, dragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Still conscious, with only his right leg broken, Mr. Pruden told the two policemen who picked him up: "Listen boys, I came down here to see if the Lord would look after me. I expected Him to protect me. But He didn't. You can see that for yourselves. . . . Still I'm not faultin' Him. He did pretty well to keep me alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed that the show is based on James Gleason's onetime farce vehicle, Like a King. The leg work is good, the singing terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...afternoon. Four of these, Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, J. L. Reid '27, David White '29, and David Guarnaccia '29 were listed among the point scorers at the close of the competition. A. B. Miller '27, who was to start from scratch in the century did not run. The leg which he injured in the Intercollegiates on May 29 is in good shape again but Coach Farrell decided not to run any risk of a recurrence of the former difficulty by sending the Crimson sprint ace into competition before it was necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR HARVARD MEN ARE SCORERS IN K. OF C. MEET | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...Hussey of Boston College and Quinin of Holy Cross has been called off because of the inability of the two latter men to compete at this time. Miller, will, however, enter the regular 100 scheduled for the meet unless he is unable to run on account of the leg injury which he sustained in the Intercollegiates on Franklin Field and from which he has not yet fully recovered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN COMPETE AT MALDEN FRIDAY | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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