Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided on the Harvard angle and approached Coles H. Phinizy '42, who had succeeded Bowie, with the proposition that the 'Poon invite the second Jean Harlow to its spring dance. She wouldn't come, Kambers promised, but she might do some stunt like sending a plaster cast of her leg as a substitute. Phinizy refused his offer until he became exasperated, and then, in a moment of weakness, which he has since regretted, he accepted. Kambers immediately sent off a wire, and Woodworth, far from sending a plaster cast stand-in, headed Cambridgeward...
Limbitations. In an Oregon forest, a legless woman went out hunting in a wheel chair, bagged a deer with one shot. In Cincinnati, a speaker at the convention of the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America backed off the platform and broke his leg...
William Henderson ("Red") Friesell, football's most famed referee, last week spiked a rumor that he had worked his last game. In a Philadelphia hospital with a broken leg,* the 46-year-old five-footer, who is a yard-goods buyer when he is not chasing footballs, accused Eastern sportswriters of jumping the gun. "I'll be back next year," he fumed...
...gallop), daring climax of their 20-horse drill, one rider misjudged his horse's pace. Men, horses and white sombreros went sprawling. One rider dropped his false teeth. When the horsemen picked themselves up, one hobbled off on a sprained ankle, another required three stitches in his gashed leg, a third had to have his cracked wrist put in a cast. But Captain O'Brien collected the remnants of his riders, completed the drill...
Lyle, a 176-pound Junior who has become almost a fixture in the first string backfield, was the harder hit of the two as he received a painful leg injury and was carted off the field to the medical room. Row soon followed him after getting a blow on the head...