Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to a nub. Heretofore, said the President, he had spent a lot of time on strategy; he had been forced to read a great deal, see many people. Now Admiral Leahy would save him time by assuming some of the burden: the Chief of Staff would do the "leg work" (from the newspaper term for reporters who gather news and turn it in to a writer), the indexing, the summarizing...
...story of Tap Roots is startling in a different way. Morna Dabney was betrothed to Clay Maclvor, but when infantile paralysis withered her right leg, he made off with her sister Aven ("graceful as a waterfall"). Morna had to content herself, illicitly, with the "incredibly handsome" Keith Alexander, while the leg limbered up. Keith (in nonfiction the remarkable Alexander Keith McClung) was the bitter bastard son of a great man in Washington. Keith shot 17 men for asking who. Author Street keeps his guesses to himself...
Last week Joe Grew reached Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Asama Maru, on the first leg of his homeward trip to Washington. The 62-year-old Ambassador's unhappiness was made plain in quotations from a speech which he had delivered to his Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after...
...nightclubs he cut an exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...
...better hurry and get back to study. This, after all, was the summer session, the accelerated program, the mutilated term that was so intensive, so destructive of student health. As he cut in front of Widener, he couldn't help looking. He wondered whether most of those legs were in stockings or Velva Leg Film. That night still worrying, Vag wandered up to the Square for something to eat, and found himself walking through the gate between Wadsworth and Lehman. The Navy dorms were quiet, the shades down and the lights on behind them for studying. The girls' dorms weren...