Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreadful Spew. The Portland was a 291-ft. side-wheeler, trim with white and gold paint, and to Boston's fond eye, as slick as a schoolmarm's leg. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 1898, many families were returning to Maine after holiday visits to Boston. Despite storm warnings, the skipper decided he could make Portland ahead of the blow. Shortly after dark, with 176 people aboard, he cast off. The Portland disappeared down the channel into a swirl of snow...
...could be learned last night all the other newspapers will print the ad as submitted--leg...
...Boston, a little leg can cause a lot a trouble, And a lot of leg, the Harvard Theatre Workshop found out yesterday, can be cataclysmic...
Another surprise was the fine defensive work of halfback Jim Kenary, and the amazing agility of Kenny O'Donnell, considering he had a broken leg. As for Houston, the local papers were right--he made tremendous offensive blocks and fouled up innumerable Yale plays by taking out the interference, the ball-carrier or both...
Then it is squirted into an animal's leg. Within seven hours it has piled up in the body's fat depots. The whole treatment is supposed to make anyone a Mr. Five-by-Five in no time...