Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he went to war, pint-sized Miller Anderson was the best twist diver in the U.S. Over Italy, 13 months ago, Captain Anderson bailed out of his P-47, smashed his left leg against the tail of the plane. He fell behind the Nazi lines, and the Germans, too busy retreating to tend to him, let his bad leg get worse. When U.S. Army doctors reached him, they screwed a three-inch silver plate in just above the knee, and patched him up so that he didn't limp. But when he got back to college last January...
...first, it was as awkward as a righthander trying to pitch lefthanded. The trick was to thump the board hard enough with his 135 lbs. to get up high in the air. His weak leg limited him to an hour and a half's practice a day; he used to practice three hours...
Last week Sadler's Wells added two more weeks to its season so that everyone who wanted to could see Margot Fonteyn in Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. One fact every critic noted and agreed on-Fonteyn had the handsomest legs in English ballet. W. J. Turner wrote: "English dancers in general are of more slender, more graceful, more mobile physique than Italian and French dancers. You will not find among them-men or women-these grand-piano legs." Margot credits Sadler's Wells, not the English climate. Says she: "Bad training develops big leg muscles...
...into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...
Groused long-nosed Columnist Lyons, who says that he borrows "from my witty wife" many of the gags he credits to others: "No one has the right to the fruit of our labor; no man, using only scissors and paste pot, should benefit from another's leg-ear-and-eyework...