Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black headlines was the appalling assertion that no less than 1,500 of New York's public school teachers were actually unbalanced. Many were hopelessly insane, some almost maniacs. Reading down, startled parents learned of a teacher so self-conscious that she had poked a chair-leg into a boy's eye and twisted it ''to distract attention of the class" from herself. Another had sat furred and hatted in a warm room complaining that the janitor was trying to freeze her. Several had commuted to work from suburban White Plains' Bloomingdale Hospital for mental...
...sense in which the layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near...
Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg hospital doubted whether Maranville would ever play baseball again...
Gnomelike Walter James Vincent Maranville is one of the nine big-leaguers over 40.* He got his first big-league job, with Boston, 22 years ago when the regular shortstop broke a leg. If he had played 140 games this season, Maranville would have passed the record of Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner who played in 2,785. Famed for his basket-catches of infield flies, his picayune size, his antics on the field and off, Maranville hoped also to play until he had grandchildren old enough to watch him. When he was traded out of the big leagues...