Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tavern in Passaic looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar on his arm, gets bored-especially after a humdrum day on the job at a New Jersey rubber plant. Mike ordered still another drink...
...have a chance to prove it in the future. For Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg on the leg rest, put the pressure inductor on his shin bone and pump up the pressure until it hurts. That indicates the threshold at which pain begins (and the victim-however Spartan-is supposed to yell). The threshold varies from 500 (for the Gummidge type) to 2,700 grams...
...dolorimeter is also used on people who already have a pain. It can measure pain anywhere in the body-Marat's itch, Prometheus' pecked liver and Job's ulcers would have been equally fair game. The machine is applied to the patient's leg and the squeeze increased beyond the threshold, up & up until the agonized shin bone makes the patient forget his neuralgia or whatever was hurting him. A reading at that point gauges the severity of the neuralgia, the sores or the itch. By comparing the first day's pain intensity with successive...
Spinach to Mother. With 25 years of flat and steeplechase jockeying on both sides of the Atlantic, 13 years of schooling on the U.S. smalltime circuit, Frenchy knew a good horse when he saw one. In August 1943, he saw one at a Chicago track. Despite a game front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high...
Turned out to pasture for eight months, the filly got rest, treatment for her game leg, the nickname "Mimi." Then 52-year-old Frenchy jerked a black & white plaid cap down over his ears, lifted his 128 lbs. into the saddle, set about the business of legging-up Happy Issue for the racing wars. Allowing no one near his filly, the ex-jockey quadrupled as groom, exercise boy, owner and trainer. From then on it was a rags-to-riches campaign...