Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stripes revolved steadily under a six foot pair of red lips painted by Artist Man Ray. In other galleries throughout the building were a black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were tacked a mousetrap, a pair of baby shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins, a stiff collar, pearl...
...dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized the opportunity to stride onto the stage, make an impromptu appeal for United Charities. Stunned, the audience let him speak for a few minutes, then...
...other hand, Dr. Samuel Bernard Wortis of Manhattan angrily exclaimed: "Dr. Freeman has obtained here a shock result, which can always change the course of a psychosis. I have seen mental patients in Bellevue Hospital who have become normal after such a shock as the fracture of a leg...
...Jameson, Charlie Haughton, and Chink Fearon are Sophomore numeral winners from last year who will turn out in the next few days. Hopes for this year's team have been considerably bolstered by the showing Leo Ecker has made so far. A question mark because of his broken leg last year, Leo's injured member has withstood the constant scrimmages which are a part of the preliminary work the pucksters are now doing, and will apparently be ready to take his old position at right wing...
Today peace strikes and student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...