Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they went "into the country" for the second time, Grakle began to move up. At Becher's Brook again, Solanum fell, then Easter Hero. Great Span went down at the Canal fence. At Valentine's Brook Drin fell with a broken leg, was later shot. Coming into the "race course," the long gentle curve that ends the 47-mile Grand National steeplechase, Gregalach, Grakle and Ballasport were in the lead together. R. Lyall up on Grakle cleared the last fence first, swung in to the rail...
...shot, as were the Wendel horses (said legend) when the old family coachman died in 1929? Was it true that Manhattan's Flower Hospital was to receive some $17,000,000 from Miss Wendel's estate because a doctor there had once mended the broken leg of a previous Tobey Wendel...
...gave bequests to family friends and retainers, to charities and religious bodies, following closely the will of Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel Swope, who died last summer (TIME, Aug. 4). Flower Hospital received its expected share (but its officials scouted the leg-setting story); and the famed old Wendel house went to Drew Theological Seminary, whose onetime president, Dr. Tipple, was an old family friend...
Recently in Chicago a truck crushed the same Peter Grimes's mended leg. The surgeon who attended him was Dr. Jerger, now practicing in Chicago. As Dr. Jerger amputated Peter Grimes's leg, he thrilled on recognizing the signature of his old handiwork. Later, when he learned that Peter Grimes had received $20,000 for his latest accident, he was piqued. Last week he sued Peter Grimes...
...investigated the possibilities of Trans-Lux projection, found that by projecting from behind the screen he could make miniature movie theatres out of small stores and offices at nominal cost. All Trans-Lux theatres will have big comfortable chairs, rows far enough apart for patrons to sit with their legs crossed. They will be too well lighted for the operations of leg-pinchers and knee-rubbers, who make the grandest cinema palaces their playground...