Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened to be Jews (TIME. June 19). He took one of his stands last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings. I will sail...
Charles Johnson was under sail in the days of windjammers. Mostly he shipped as a cook, and in the galley learned how to use a knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them...
...forced draft at 8 p. m. Cautiously maneuvering through the murk her commander, with magnificent seamanship, brought the bow of his ship against the bow of the fiery Fulton, held her there while the remainder of those aboard the Fulton leaped to safety. A Filipino cook boy broke a leg, an electrician hurt his spine. Six others had lesser injuries but before morning all the Fulton's 187 men and her cat were brought alive to Hongkong...
...Glacier Park, he was housed, fed and given two or three dollars a day. He also did very well by selling to visitors his auto-graph-a crude drawing of two guns and a calf. Last autumn, however, aged 62. he fell from his horse and broke a leg. Last week Death-as it must to all men. red, white, black, brown or yellow-came to Two Guns White Calf. Press releases told of the death of the "Nickel" Indian, told how medicine men had offered up prayers to the Sun God. Natos, told how his people had chanted...
...kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into the corpse through five feet of rubber tubing. In a little while the gauge level stopped falling, began to rise in slow pulsations. Lazarus II gasped. His leg twitched. His heart began to beat, feebly at first, then like a triphammer, then normally. Lazarus II was alive...