Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsa Maxwell, plump, professional party-planner turned columnist, was tickled when Photographer Leora Thompson assured her that she had an "exuberant"-looking leg. She exulted: "Really, it's not so bad. There may be a lot more of it than necessary, but. . . I don't know-any fat women with legs that can compare with mine...
Instead of planting the gland in the scrotum, Dr. Frumkin put it in a pocket in the colonel's thigh where its veins and arteries could be linked with the big vein and artery of the leg, thus insuring a good blood supply. The results were spectacular. The colonel's piping voice went down, his red beard sprouted anew, the fat around his hips disappeared, and he began to take an interest in women again...
...unwary gallerygoer whose eye lights on an abstract painting immediately suspects that someone is trying to pull his leg. He is baffled or indignant when such an expert as the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell proclaims some of it "great art." Last week in Manhattan, three famed abstractionists were on display, to give the layman that old feeling...
...doctors: "Please, can't you put me to sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn and burned black. In a few-minutes he stopped groaning, and when the doctor sought to turn his arm gently, the wounded man said: "Go ahead and turn her over, Doc. I'm all right...
After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...