Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman set off on the first leg of his campaign itinerary, Candidate Tom Dewey kept his own plans strictly to himself. The only word from Republican headquarters was the announcement that Running Mate Earl Warren would take off next week for a ten-day tour through twelve Western and border states...
...pastry shop in London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined the R.A.F. again. His house at Croydon was bombed one night while Alfred was at home on leave. Alfred, his wife and their six children survived, although Alfred was left with a crippled leg, his wife with a weak heart. After the war the Ministry of Labor rated Alfred as "unemployable." Four times he had applied for a permit to open a pastry shop in Bedhampton, to which he had moved. Four times he had been refused. Opening of new pastry shops was strictly forbidden because...
...concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
...half hour later Mrs. Kosenkina was under police guard at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. She had a broken leg and kneecap and internal injuries. She would be hospitalized for at least three months...
...sprightly femme fatale who dreams of a perfect marriage "full of quarrels and making-up and everything," Betty and her square-jawed artlessness fit oddly into an atmosphere of languorous waltzes, yearning tziganes and dark, uncontrollable passions. Determined Lubitsch fans may find her presence there a satiric leg-pull in the Lubitsch tradition. Although Grable fans are less likely to enjoy this subtle kind of continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances...