Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan Rocco Colonna, 33, unemployed musician, leaped to the tracks in the 42nd Street station of the new $191,200,000 Eighth Avenue Subway, opened two days before. Before a train appeared he was dragged up with a broken leg...
...style befitting a "regally gilded queen." Montgomery, once provider for Miss Dove, falls in love with Miss Davies. The frequent quarrels of Miles Davies & Dove reach a climax when Miss Dove intentionally lets slip Miss Davies' hand during a revolving ballet number. Miss Davies breaks a leg. After a farewell party at which she gets her mother intoxicated, she returns to the East Side. Montgomery finally appears with 1) four specialists who promise they can mend the broken limb and 2) a proposal of marriage. Through the picture flows bottle upon bottle of chilled champagne...
...without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months he was in a hospital. He was given blood transfusions, bone from his leg was grafted into his spine. Student Groh went back to Coe, stayed until a year ago. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he was obliged to return to the hospital for more treatment last week, just as his attorney filed suit for $3,500 for medical expenses, $100,000 for damages...
...ended a career that might have been dictated by E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York first saw "Prince Edgar" nearly 40 years ago when he arrived flush with funds and cut a wide swathe through the leg o' mutton-sleeved Society of the period. He married Clare de Cosse Conger, niece of Edwin T. Conger of Ohio, onetime Minister to China. That did not last long. In 1911 Prince Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed...
...other country the consequence of such a move would have been immediate turmoil, but the body politic of China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much...