Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filling the afternoon air with a droning roar, racing speedboats plowed foamy furrows up and down the Niagara River at Buffalo. Chief plowhand was Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold Cup. Baby Gar IVs average speed for the 150 miles was 42.06 m.p.h. Rainbow, owned by S. B. Eagan of Buffalo, plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded...
Providence, R. I., moved among them, wondering if she could win an other leg on the Griswold Trophy. As the week wore on, the seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd, of Philadelphia, disposed of her opponents most stoutly, coursing around often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round...
...filled with reports that a pair of "Siamese twins", born in Brooklyn, had been cut asunder so successfully that, though one died, the other would live to be a healthy man. Both infants were alleged to be perfectly formed, save that the deceased one had, instead of a right leg, a shapeless growth connecting him to the abdomen of his brother. Surgeons were said to have "hurried from all parts of the country" to see the "unprecedented result" of Dr. Philip Mininberg's plastic surgery...
...Massachusetts men, and several bedfuls of flowers. That afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, looking grave, went to the Walter Reed Hospital. In one of the rooms lay Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 16, their youngest son, stricken suddenly with virulent septic poisoning that had settled in the tibia of his right leg as the result of a tennis blister. Dr. John B. Deaver, of Philadelphia, operated, but by evening it was known that the patient's condition was extremely serious...
...concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until the end the bout was more like a race than a fight. Carpentier, in full retreat, was near a knock-out in the ninth and tenth rounds. In the ninth he fell without being hit and claimed an injured leg. At this point, Gibbons noticeably let up in his attack when Carp seemed pleading verbally with him in the last two rounds. Unsportsmanlike. Gibbons was decidedly the favorite of the crowd. In the ninth, when Georges fell and claimed an injured leg, there was an unsportsmanlike round of booes...