Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, May 11: "Only some 50% of all Navy officers are Annapolis graduates, [but] Annapolis men dominate most Selection Boards." Someone has been pulling your leg, or the person who quoted you the figures is deliberately creating a false impression...
Brawl. In Prestonsburg, Ky., four men were jailed for fighting. One was blind, one on crutches, two had one leg each...
...monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
...Right Reverend Christopher Maude Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester (England), who lost a leg in an auto accident, his diocese sent nearly $3,000 for the purchase of a new leg. To the diocese the Bishop sent a note: "By the time you read this letter, I ought to be experimenting with my diocesan leg. It is a miracle of contrivance, complete with ball bearings and the latest gadgets. More than Saint Paul with his Churches, I ought to bear you in my heart now that I shall be borne on your leg...
Having already gained one leg-on the Freshman Interdormitory Plaque by its victory in last fall's touch football championship, Strauss Hall will send its basketball team against Farlow Friday in Hemenway Gymnasium in an attempt to capture the Yard hoop crown. Both teams topped their respective leagues and gained the right to a play-off in the Yardling basketball "world series...