Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halfway through the third period with Poupore off the ice for a board check, the Crimson put on a power play which resulted in Gene Emerson tangling with Munro. Shortly afterwards Russ Allen joined the others in the pen for a leg check, but neither team capitalized on the break...
...Cutter, assist by Mechem, 11:01: Carver, unassisted, 11:21. Third Period--Carr, assist by Hicks, 3:05: Jameson, assist by Pope, Patrick, 7:21: Pope, assist by Patrick, 8:27. Penalties--McGinness (body check in center zone), McGill (board check), Poupore (high stick), Munro (roughing), Emerson (roughing), Allen (leg check), Guy (hooking). Referees--Hugh and Lefevre. Time--three 20 minute periods...
Twisted into shapeless scrap were the engine, cars, shovels. Boulders flew like buckshot with here and there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...
...Robber Symphony is early Keystone. The sound grinds, roars, squeaks. The photography is mostly bad, the acting lugubriously burlesqued, the fantasy laid on with a shovel. Two of the least unsuccessful fantasies: The dog's tail wagging to rhumba music; the dog wetting a man's trouser-leg because he will not give a penny for the music...
...French critics still fought shy of him. His exhibition was a financial failure. In a brawl with some sailors his leg was badly broken. His Javanese mistress decamped with his money. In towering disgust Gauguin auctioned off his pictures, went back to the South Seas for good & all. Night before he left he spent with a casual prostitute. Her good-by present was the syphilis that killed him. By now even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease...