Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Reviewer Bell's output was temporarily curtailed. With a constitutional weakness in his legs, he fell in 1936, broke his left leg. Fortnight ago, he fell again, broke the other...
...Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with the simple caption Curley. Bill Robinson introduced the Curley Capers. Grover Whalen bid for his services as a morris dancer at the New York World's Fair...
...with two recitals in Rome before going on tour among front-line troops, announced that he would play only classical numbers, including some "musical spinach" like Bach's lighter works. The virtuoso observed that 10% of the soldiers "seem to like serious music . . . the other 90% get leg shows...
...stories of the hard-boiled 101st is about Don Pratt's first parachute jump, when the general's husky young aide was assigned to jump with him and pick up the pieces. General Pratt landed without a scratch and picked up the aide, who had broken his leg...
...toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke his leg...