Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance called dohyo-iri (ring entry) wearing damask aprons embroidered to indicate their rank. Next they assure audiences of their sincerity by putting their left hands on their hearts, stretching out their right. After bending his knees, clapping his hands three times, spreading his arms out straight, shaking each leg, a wrestler removes his apron, purifies himself by putting salt on himself and the ring. Only then can the match start...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and a onetime NRAdministrator; President William Adger Law of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; A. L. Brooks, a Greensboro lawyer. Walking through a patch of honeysuckle, Hunter Williams tripped. His gun went off. The shot hit Hunter Law, 20 feet away, in the left leg. It took almost two hours to get Hunter Law, 71, to Siler City for first aid. From there he was hurried to Greensboro where he died from loss of blood a few minutes after reaching a hospital. Hunter Brooks said that on the way to the hospital Hunter Law had begged...
Shaken by these glimpses of evil and cruel accident, the boy returns to his mother's household, to the routine of duty that it demands, grows more austere and reserved, plays football, gets a broken leg making a touchdown for Williams in a victory over Harvard. His father's suicide puts him in touch with a cousin, Mario Van de Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When...
...dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving. Mr. Leen lay at the side of the road with a fractured skull. Senator Schall lay unconscious in the centre of the highway with a shattered leg, a battered head, internal injuries. Three days later in Washington's Casualty Hospital, he died without ever having regained consciousness...
...paid his tax: He could not; he was already in debt; if he had plunked down $45,000 to pay the tax he would have had to go out of business long before the constitutionality of the law was settled. "If a man has a pig by the hind leg," said Texan Hardie, "he can't afford to let go when somebody says to him, 'Drop that pig and catch another...