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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome and Falk have been looking for the leg, a wooden shoe-maker's model, since the Dartmouth weekend. At that time the trophy was stolen from their Kirkland H-33 suite, and the two guessed that some light-fingered Dartmouths had done the deed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

They reported the robbery to police, claiming that the leg was worth $20 and had been borrowed, and that the garter had "sentimental value." They printed a letter in The Dartmouth, asking for its return, but it never showed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday a maid found the leg stashed away in a student's room in Kirkland. She told Rome and he reclaimed his booty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...from Racine, Wisconsin, and said, "I know a girl in New York who had a wooden leg, but wouldn't wear it. Is it possible that you have gotten hers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

JOEL ROME '51 brandishes a woman's leg. The stocking is of sheer silk and medium length, size nine. The leg lost Rome during the Dartmouth game and just got back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maid Finds Gam on the Lam After Three Months Astray | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

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