Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards dashes, the Crimson and the Yale Freshmen are fairly evenly matched. Were Secrist in top form the same might be said of the 440-yards event, but a recent leg injury left him with a slight limp. Haggerty looks like a winner in the half and mile events. The hurdles should go to Yale. The shotput is the strongest Crimson event, with Miller, Kilgour, and Lundell competing for the Freshmen...
...greatest blow came when R. G. Allen '26, former Freshman track captain, and now the University's chief hope in the 440 and furlong dashes, injured his leg in a practice 80 yards dash on the Stadium, straightaway at 3.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon...
Shoop, Andover's star pitcher, struck out twelve men, but he was hit hard at times. A triple by Maher and a double by Amsden put the Crimson ahead in the second. In the fourth Maher was safe on an error and Amsden almost took Shoop's leg off with a line single that bounced off into foul territory Mann and Burton fanned, but Donaldson came through with a clean hit that apparently drove in two runs. Amsden missed third base, however, in his dash for the plate, and he was called...
...Story. We first meet youthful Tony walking up a street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...seen the glow which the old-fashioned "all-day choker" matches gave out when scratched in the dark. This pale glow is due to white phosphorus used in making the head of the match so that it will strike easily and anywhere--from the thumb nail to the trouser leg...