Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Peron, a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Frenchman, broke his leg in a northern Ontario gold mine in 1930, was compelled to give up mining engineering, eventually became a journalist. One night last week the blue-eyed, 50-year-old M. Peron was busy in his little office on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal preparing the next edition of his two-year-old weekly, La Clarté (The Light). Suddenly six provincial police barged in, seized all correspondence and files, evicted Editor Peron and his assistant, stoutly padlocked La Clarte's doors and windows. In M. Peron...
...friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited by Karl Marx. In Paris, at 58, he died-crying "Paper! Pencil!" The wonder was that he had lived so long. A syphilitic infection, contracted in his university days and never diagnosed, had progressively lamed his left leg, crippled his left arm, and in his last years reduced him to almost helpless invalidism...
...Handsome Dan," the Yale bulldog that was so attractive to the Harvard Lampoon three years ago that they couldn't resist kidnapping him, is dead. He sustained a broken leg three weeks ago and unable to survive the accident because of complications, died last week...
Last week leg-weary Manhattan art reporters were convinced that few seasons in living memory had produced so much bustle and stir. While the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art were ready to spring big shows of U. S. paintings, the number of important small shows and other events left up-to-the-minute-keepers far behind. Samples...
...Stars skated off the ice with a 6-to-5 victory. Thus was raised enough money, added to private subscriptions, to make a fund of $23,000 for the widow and three children of Howarth ("Howie") Morenz. speediest forward in hockey history, who died last winter after breaking a leg in a Canadien game. Thus also was opened the 1937-38 hockey season...