Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marching past Il Duce and the 100 generals. For the first time the boys were given real rifles. One hundred yards from the reviewing stand each unit clicked into Mussolini's latest invention, the new Fascist half-goosestep which is executed with the left arm and left leg swinging out stiff...
Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
Since he flew to Europe in 1927 as the first transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...
Comeback. Last year, fortnight after his wedding at Hangchow, China, Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of Baseball's late great "Big Six," took his bride for an airplane ride, cracked up on a mud-flat. His bride lost her life, he his left leg. Last week, with an artificial leg, Christy Mathewson Jr. went to Roosevelt Field, L. I., had an instructor "check him out," made several solo flights. Said he: "I find I can fly as well as ever. . . . I intend to carry on in the industry...
Overnight the leg got worse, however, and today he was advised to keep out of action for at least two weeks...