Word: legging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swooping down on Soldiers Field yesterday for what Bill Bingham called "the first forced landing there since 1918," a trio of air-minded Princeton debaters came to Cambridge last night, only to lose the home leg of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Debate to the defending Crimson team...
...again last week in a nine-furlong workout against Star Pilot (who had already won purses totaling $187,385). Gawky Knockdown was running easily at the finish in 1:56. Reluctantly Elizabeth Arden scratched Star Pilot as a Derby starter, and withdrew another horse, Colony Boy, because of a leg injury...
...spite of the loss of Doug Pirnie, ace sprint man, who pulled a muscle in his leg shortly before the meet, the track team took fourteen out of fifteen firsts o swamp Tufts and Connecticut in its opening meet of the season held last Saturday at Soldiers Field. The final score was Harvard 120, Tufts 27 1/2; and Connecticut...
Eight long months ago the Ada Rehan, her reputation spotless, had sailed out of San Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...
...capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant son than that of Nelson and Lady Hamilton and their daughter. My father was like a madman. He did not seem...