Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flew a flock of hand grenades left over from the War. Ethiopia's Archbishop in his flowing robes shared in the worst of the blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief of Italy's East African Air Force, went down with great lacerations in his leg. The Viceroy, although wounded, was able to stand, shouted orders to his troops to arrest the whole mob of 2,000-an old Ethiopian custom...
...Rome, Il Duce instantly gave orders for Surgeon-Professor Cesar Antonucci to take off from Rome with his assistant, Dr. Giovanni Barbera. Day later they alighted at Addis Ababa, amputated the shattered leg of Air General Liotta. By this time Viceroy Graziani had mobilized 30,000 troops on a war basis, issued a communique: "The outrage represents an episode of common delinquency." According to Addis newsfolk the Ethiopian grenade-throwers set up a shout of "Ras Desta is coming!" but in fact this onetime ras (chief) of Haile Selassie was hundreds of miles away making good his escape into British...
...Kingston, Pa., in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Nurse Georgia De Frane was applying a solution to the leg wounds of Miner John Lapore. 45, when he suddenly bit off the tip of her nose...
...this point a new and tender note enters his life. He is struck by an appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...
...hands down. This quartet hit 3 minutes 23.2 seconds in the B.A.A. meet, and with no middle distance events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...