Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...
...source for bootleggers, OPA has just about dried up the stolen-coupon pool. OPA hopes that the new requirements for ODT approval of truck and taxi mileage will undercut the other big source - commercial operators who get more than they really need, "lose" ration books etc. Boot leg coupons are usually sold (for 3-5? a gallon) to gas stations which pass the gas on to unwitting joyriders as a "favor" (at a 100-200% markup over cost...
This record lasted until the first event of the big meet, when Crimson Captain Bill Drucker was clocked unofficially at 1:04.3 in the first leg of the medley relay. He also beat 1:05.2 on his way to an easy first in the 150-yard event...
...Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...called Erdmann technique, which is not a technique at all, but an amazing speed in operating attained through practice, great anatomical knowledge and never-ending study. There is no Erdmann operation-the doctor never concentrated exclusively on any one area. He would as soon cut off a leg as go after an appendix, is at home in the skull and the thorax. He teaches surgery, but has never been able to teach the Erdmann technique...