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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Chief" appeared on the field in street clothes, but the leg injury he sustained in the fourth period against the Big Red is evidently one of those unfortunate long-term affairs...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: CHIEF BOSTON OUT OF ARMY FRACAS WITH LEG INJURY | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

...Harlowmen came out of the game with perhaps more than the usual amount of bumps and bruises and one injury which may prove really costly. That was to Chief Boston, who alternated with Cliff Wilson at blocking back. The Chief sustained a leg injury which makes his status questionable for next Saturday's clash with Army...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Line Great in Cornell Defeat --- Yardlings Lose | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...that he must have had a left-handed teacher. As Plastic Surgeon Stotter prepared to operate on Mr. Shafer's ears and joined Mr. Shafer in his campaign, New York Academy of Medicine's Dr. lago Galdston said last week the trouble was not ear-pulling but leg-pulling. Snorted Dr. Galdston: "This is baloney with a thick layer of sausage. If you hung up a boy by his ears for a couple of months, it might change their shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tragedy of Ears | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

George Kuhn will occupy the other end post. A smart defensive player, he should be in to break Exonian plays frequently. The center question is uncertain at the present, due to a bad leg injury to Ed Ready, who has been holding down the A team pivot position. His place may be taken by either Jack McNeil or Art Lyman, who has been switched around from center to the backfield and back again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope of Future Varsity Grid Teams Meets Test as Yardlings Face Exeter | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

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