Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven weeks ago Wisconsin's Democratic Governor, 69-year-old Albert Schmedeman, troubled with varicose veins, put down his foot unsteadily while descending from a speakers' platform, slipped, injured his ankle. Infection set in and his leg was amputated above the knee (TIME. Oct. 15). Howard Greene, his Republican opponent, declared on the stump that it was cruel of the Democratic organization to force a crippled man to continue the campaign. Last week political quidnuncs estimated that, although Mr. Greene had not been as inept as Mr. Gay, he, too, had lost votes by his remark...
...Alexander and M. Barthou moved out of range of the sound trucks at the quay, cameramen seized portable machines and trotted after it. There they were when a man jumped on the running board of the car and opened fire. A French cameraman fell with a bullet in his leg. Paramount's close-up camera was kicked over in the mêleé. Fox Movietone's George Mejat ground away as the police hacked down the assassin, then fought to the side of the car for closeups of the dying King, wriggled away to focus...
...campaign for renomination. Wisconsin's 69-year-old Governor Albert George Schmedeman, Democrat, stepped from a speaking platform last month, slipped on a loose stone, wrenched his left foot, continued his campaign. Last week, in severe pain, he bedded himself in a Madison hospital where surgeons amputated his infected leg above the knee, felt he had "every chance" for recovery...
...case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith is all but destroyed. Finally, a boy with a paralyzed leg "miracle," is thus cured by his producing a faith in second the first and authentic miracle, restoring Lytell's faith and the case for canonization...
...like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that two years later, without his knowledge, his land lord would make a tidy sum peddling his pictures of "Dick" and "Nita" to Manhattan newspapers. That summer Hauptmann had a lame leg, due, he said, to varicose veins. Braue and Miss Lutzenberg never saw him afterward...