Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-dress "Trooping the Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle on her chestnut gelding Winston...
...great year next season," this character began. "If Lowenstein can put on twenty pounds this summer, and if Moffie doesn't break a leg, our backs ought to be among the snapplest in the East, but of course with Godin out of the picture, I don't know where Stuffy will find another real stopper on the firing line. As for Bolles, of course, we don't need to worry--Jaakko has some very fine young freshmen coming up, you know...
...Mindful of middle-aged bridegrooms, the Greater New York Safety Council issued instructions for carrying brides across thresholds: "The correct way...is to bend the knees, keep the body upright, take a firm grip...and push upward with the leg muscles. Do not try to lift too much weight." The council added that this would also be handy for lifting barrels and furniture...
...expertly ran a sewing machine, and teased her husband, also one-armed, into helping her fix the house for a bridge party; he deftly whisked a vacuum cleaner around the room, then hung a strip of new wallpaper. Then, in a business scene, a stenographer with one leg operated office equipment; her one-legged boss interviewed salesmen who demonstrated golf and fishing equipment to him. Kruger, no longer an active officer in the organization, beamingly got into the act to show off his one-armed golf game, neatly stroked a cotton ball off the stage and into a drinking glass...
...trying to tinker with the Grable formula, Director Sturges comes perilously close to forgetting the Grable form. Betty sings only a couple of songs, gets no chance to dance at all, and gives only two rather fleeting leg shows, once in an old-fashioned Pullman berth and again in the midst of a gunfight. A Sturges experiment is always worth watching, but most moviegoers would probably have settled for more Grable and fewer gags...