Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medal at Pittsburgh's Carnegie. It is an intricate, super-exact picture of a moldering mortuary door, and show's one touch of life-a woman's gnarled, bejeweled hand. The girl model for the hand posed every Sunday for a year. "She had a wonderful leg," quips Ivan of that which does not appear in the picture at all. The model for the funeral wreath had to be renewed about five times in the course of the work because the wax flowers drooped every couple of years...
Weapon. In Corsicana, Tex., police charged a man with beating a woman over the head with his wooden leg...
...Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
...should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation in the leg. But if the blood supply is choked, the limb or hernia remains dark, must be amputated at once. This test, the doctors said, should avoid unnecessary surgery, thus reduce the 50% mortality rate for strangulated hernia resections...
Back in uniform, but a new one, was 47-year-old Playwright Laurence Stallings (What Price Glory?). A Marine Corps captain who lost his leg in Belleau Wood, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air Forces, promoted to major...