Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget I speak English," said Anthony Haden Guest. He was having a fine time in London last week. He got under a table and pinched a lady reporter's leg. Anthony, 4½, was conceded to be the youngest person to escape from Occupied France...
Leaving five other House crews in their wake, Winthrop and Eliot won their opening heats of the season yesterday afternoon, turning in times of 5:57 and six minutes flat respectively. The only House that did not participate was Adams, which was forced to default because of a leg injury to one of its members...
Thus a loud, brash, and angry voice cried this week to the U.S. people. The voice belonged to Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky, who won all available decorations, and lost his right leg when he flew for his native Russia in World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast...
...things come to such a pass? The Chicago Daily News and the Sun had sniped away interminably at the Tribune, while the really big game-the all-important Senate seat-slipped through. No one had done either the leg work or the straight thinking necessary; the people were left helpless before a blunt fact: of all the 7,897,000 people in Illinois, none but Curly Brooks and Warren Wright were presented for the Republican Senate nomination in this year of great need...
Finding low-cost shows that will go over big in Army camps has been a headache: the boys want the dolled-up leg shows they can't always get, all too often get routine stuff they don't want. But in Virginia the Richmond Defense Service Unit of OCD has lately struck gold in an abandoned mine. Again & again at Camp Lee and Fort Eustis, that venerable grog-flogger. Ten Nights in a Barroom, has left the boys looping...