Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipe . . . and pretty little thrips who sing mischievously about adultery . . . while Ollie Twitch and his reefer boys are tearing the atmosphere to bleeding tatters from the platform and some agile mugger with greased hair is twining a boneless female around his neck and exhibiting an impersonal patch of leg meat, hers...
...same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take...
...Browns's owner, had hired 25 telephone operators to call everybody in Cleveland, to urge them to get out to the game. The runaway score made it no match to watch, but the management had thoughtfully advertised big half-time shows, with everything from fireworks to a leg show by a $50,000 all-girl band. Two days later, 35,000 paying customers packed San Francisco's Kezar Stadium to see the New York Yankees beat the '49ers...
...Queen Elizabeth, out for a rural walk with George and the Princesses near Balmoral, crossed a brook in Glen Cairn, lost her footing and fell. Injuries: "Minor cuts & bruises" on the left leg. The doctor ordered rest for two or three days...
Brunette Bootsie started out as a leg-woman for her husband's old column, These Charming People, in Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. When Igor was drafted in 1943, "Cissie" Patterson let Bootsie step in as his wartime substitute. Washingtonians liked the substitute better than the original : her stuff was not deep, but it avoided the catty approach that once got Igor tarred & feathered (TIME, July 3, 1939). As the daughter of an old and horsy Virginia family, in whose house Igor took refuge after being tarred, Bootsie had a better entry into Capital society...