Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area of revelations, trainer Jimmy Cox revealed after the game that Gannon had played the whole season with a pair of injuries, one received in spring practice and the other this summer. In the Brown and Yale games he were painful leg wrappings to protect the injuries which were aggravated whenever Chip did contact work...
...last obstacle-my office door-gave way, and a mob of howling furies leaped on me. One of them, an ugly, red-bearded giant, hit me on the head with a chair leg. I was knocked down, and under a deluge of punches and kicks, dragged down the stairs and outside the City Hall. I recognized the shrieks of my wife, mingling with the yelling of the mob: (À mort, à mort, à mort...
...Leg Up. But the darling of the cameramen was tiaraed Mrs. Frank Henderson, identified by Knickerbocker as "The Milton Berle of Society." Betty Henderson "came in directly behind Mrs. Kavanaugh," giggled Society Columnist Charles Ventura in the World-Telegram, "and suffered a sound thwack over the tiara with a folded program by a dowager who resented having to wait in a drafty doorway until Betty was photographed. . . ." The press heard that she had paid only $48.25 for her gown at S. Klein's. She even put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Opera...
...servant of Mr. Bennett, deputy commissioner of Garhwal, in 1875. Having killed a marauding bear by an exercise of intelligence and angry bravery, Kalyanu soared to the conclusion that bears were easy ; he failed to use his head on the next bear and got mauled. Mr. Bennett set his leg, healed him, and took him on as an orderly at a critical moment...
...back in Rumania, illegally. She was arrested for "subversive activities endangering the security of the state." On that occasion a policeman shot and wounded her ; the bullet is still in her leg. She had served five years of a ten-year sentence when, in a 1941 exchange of prisoners between Russia and Rumania, Moscow asked for and got Ana; she became a Soviet citizen. About that time her husband disappeared. (His probable fate: execution as a Trotskyite after Ana turned him in to Soviet police.) Their son, Vlad, is in the Rumanian Army. Daughters Tanya and Marie are in school...