Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Beebe, 68, past master at best-selling exploration (Jungle Peace, Jungle Days), returned to Manhattan from yet another expedition, reported that he had done his latest wildlife-peeping from the cool veranda of an unused Venezuelan luxury hotel. He broke his leg and spent most of his five-month stay peering at the jungle through binoculars. He found the view so good that he now would like to build the place into a sort of scientists' center...
Family Life. In Charleston, W.Va., a woman who complained in court that her husband had kicked her, lost her case when Judge Harold Neff noted that the man had only one leg...
Marlene Dietrich, back after eleven months of USOing in Europe, greeted returning soldiers of the 44th Division by standing at the end of a Manhattan pier and waving a leg at them. She drew a deafening roar and a blizzard of coins. Then she had herself boosted to a porthole and really got down to cases (see cut). In Europe, she recalled, her most effective line was just, " 'Hello, boys'-I would just walk out on the stage, say that, and the house would come down. I don't know...
Fortune. In Pretoria, South Africa, a fortuneteller promised that "tomorrow" would be a G.I.'s lucky day. Next day the lucky soldier: missed connections back to camp, trudged eight miles, scalded his foot, dislocated an arm, cut his leg. But he got a promotion, received a gift of 500 cigarets, won $40 in a lottery...
...Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...