Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frankly indecent," reveals indecent exposure of mind. What decent mind would think of saying that a posture of girl skaters "brings to mind a posture that dogs often use?" . . . P.B. is really indicting the Creator for indecency when he charges that it is indecent to show an uncovered leg in skating or dancing...
...Boston last week, when the curtain rolled up on 1948's baseball season, a giant of a man (6 ft. 4½ in.) limped out to pitch for the Philadelphia A's. On his left leg Leland Victor Brissie, 23, wore two socks and a plastic shin guard. He was not only a rookie but a southpaw to boot, and Plate-Umpire Cal Hubbard got set for a flurry of wild pitching. But the rookie's "live" fast ball cut the plate and his curve snapped over for strikes. Red Sox sluggers got only two hits...
...fourth hit was a vicious line drive from Ted Williams' bat that struck Brissie's left leg and caromed toward first base. A groan swept the stands; Williams angrily kicked the first base bag, apparently blaming himself for something he couldn't be blamed for, watching the giant rookie writhing in pain on the grass behind the pitcher's mound. It was the same leg a German shell had shattered four years ago when Corporal Brissie, a bazooka man, was leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations...
Davidson and North Carolina pounded the Varsity on its swing through the south, 6 to 3 and 9 to 0 respectively, but the Crimson bounced back on the last leg of its tour for an 8 to 1 show at Annapolis and a 7 to 2 victory at West Point. Their doubles improved as they retreated north. The two southern colleges, nonleague, were polished and whittled by weeks of practice, while the Varsity had had only one outdoor session, and it took a couple of rounds for the Crimson combos to shift gears. They are in high now, however, according...
...full strength, except for the continued absence of Jim Kenary, who is on his feet again after his appendectomy but not yet ready for competition. Lennie Lunder, Chip Gannon, and John Caulfield will be is the outfield, while the regular quartet of Coulsen, Huntington, Mannino (now recovered from his leg injury) and Captain Coppinger will play the infield...