Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold, this "world's greatest gambler" speculated his way in & out of many a fortune, helped to bring about the union of South Africa. He was decorated for his part in the Boer War, was knighted in 1911. In 1937 Cape Town, believing Sir Abe dead after his leg had been amputated, dropped its flags to half-mast. Next year the doughty oldster lost his other leg, forestalled half-mastery by issuing a bulletin announcing that he was doing fine...
...Hoover he helped draw the Government reorganization bills, saw them knifed by the Democratic majority, went to work for that majority when the New Deal came to town, as Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s administrative assistant. Impatient of tenseness, intolerant of hurry, he presides at NDAC meetings with a leg slung over the arm of his chair, his eyes half closed. But he makes Commission members' eyes pop when someone says of a pending job: "It'll take ten days." McReynolds likes to, and often does rouse himself long enough to say something like: "I'll have...
...morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities, shook the hand of China's Director of Intelligence Samuel Chang, then had his leg amputated...
...mistake of trying to conceal his identity and whereabouts (apparently for the honest reason that he was harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also tried belatedly to claim diplomatic...
During 50 years at sea the Doctor fought, or rather butchered, at Cape Saint Vincent, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Rochefort and many another action, most of which he was moved to describe in the course of telling about his leg. He sailed for prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude...