Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven office boy had not made a mistake. Since the invitation cannot be rescinded, Yale's press agent (Eddie Nugent) pounds out enthusiastic copy. Texas Coach Slug Winters (Jack Haley) is enthusiastic, too, until his tough wife Bessie (Patsy Kelly) fractures his star passer's leg. In time's nick Slug fills the gap with a barefoot Texas melon-grower named Amos (Stuart Erwin) who can toss a cantaloupe incredible distances, learns to do even better with a football. Despite the intervention of a blizzard, the charms of Arline Judge and a good deal of assorted harmonizing...
...Switzerland up swelled last week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge...
...Burns Lake, B. C.'s hospital last week, suffering from broken leg and exposure, Prospector Arthur Gammon told how a little black bear had saved his life. Injured by a falling tree, Prospector Gammon had started to crawl to his cabin two miles away, been overtaken by a snow-storm after six days. He inched into a cave, found a bear inside. The bear did not budge. When he resumed his crawl, the bear went with him. One day he fainted, came to to find the bear holding off an encircling pack of coyotes. Still standing guard, the bear...
...Daughters suffered a leg injury in Monday's scrimmage, and will be benched for the remainder of the week...
Asked about his rivals, 43-year-old Nuvolari had given out a statement: "I have great respect for several of them but I expect to win." A driver with such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both...