Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh to get at the bones is incorrect since it merely was necessary to break off brittle pieces of skull, jaw and leg stumps for souvenirs. The bodies were left at the scene for spectators to play with from 2 a. m. until 10:30 a. m. when they were removed to undertaking parlors." -ED. Essential Experience Sirs: As an uncooked college undergraduate who for many years thought babies were found by their mammas...
...Estes Park, Colo, seven hikers were enjoying the moonlit scene one night in 1933. Suddenly the bridge collapsed. Down into the swirling water 40 ft. below plunged Sisters Adele and Virginia Fowlkes of Denver, one Marion Scilley from Loveland. Last week on behalf of Sister Adele, who received severe leg and spine injuries from the fall, Sister Virginia appeared before the House Claims Committee in Washington, retold her experiences...
During a span of 30 years, from 1894 to 1924, more than 40 of the musical comedies produced on Broadway bore the name of Victor Herbert. Fashions changed from broughams and leg-of-mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas...
...Brooklyn ring. Less impressive than their first performance, the bout lasted nine rounds, ended in a technical knockout. Pounded on the head by 87 of Haynes's looping righthanders, Camera suddenly stopped fighting, dragged himself over to the ropes, announced that he could not move his left leg. Doctors, after jabbing the leg with pins, agreed that he was suffering from temporary paralysis...
...kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged Al Miller was hurled out in front of the grandstands when his front axle broke. His wooden leg was shattered...