Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven years ago Emil Marek lost a leg. This was not the hard luck it might have seemed, for it enabled him to collect $42,875 in insurance to finance an invention. The invention failed and not long afterward he fell ill and died. In fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood...
Picked up in the palace grounds with wounds in the head and abdomen was 21-year-old Dom Juan of Orleans & Bragança, son of Dom Pedro, official pretender to the Brazilian throne. Reported shot in the leg as he tried to join the fighting was Dom Juan's 25-year-old brother, Pedro. These incidents led to speculations that back of the Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted...
Sitting in the centre of his pirogue, with one leg doubled under him, Adam Billiot furiously dug in his homemade paddle when he heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...
...Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park last winter and had beaten Stagehand in the Derby Trial Stakes last week., But if they were not impressed with the colt from Missouri, railbirds should have placed more confidence in the smartest jockey of the year, Kentucky-born Eddie Arcaro, who had the leg up on Lawrin. Determined to win his first Kentucky Derby, 23-year-old Jockey Arcaro rode the race he planned. Drawing the No. 1 post position, he kept Lawrin close to the rail, stuck in the ruck until he found his opening. Coming into the stretch, he pulled...
...Juan, Puerto Rico, his first U. S. port of call. Skipper Baker found that he had to register his Oriental So Fong, pay $2,200 duty before continuing on the last leg of his dream-come-true voyage...