Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives out the advice of a philosopher. His is the creed of Nathan "Shagpoke" Whipple, president of the Rat River National Bank and former President of the U.S. In the course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth and an eye, is robbed of his savings, and is finally martyred by an assassin. On Pitkin's Birthday, a national holiday, the vile Whipple addresses a mob of American fascists wearing coonskin caps: "Jail is his first reward. Poverty his second. Violence is his third...
James Herscot '58 of Dunster House and Lowell, Mass, has been elected captain of the 1958 varsity lacrosse team. Herscot, who plays defense for the Crimson, received a leg injury early in the season but returned later in the season and compiled an outstanding record...
Then her right leg went numb. She became tense, and her hands lost their wave-setting skill. They shook so that she could not write legibly. She could not recall the names of regular customers, or what to charge them for a permanent. After four weeks she saw a doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually...
Examined again in October, the patient was still depressed, still had difficulty with simple mental arithmetic. There were local areas of tenderness on her body, paradoxically occurring with continued numbness in the right leg, and she could not stand steady with eyes closed...
...mother in charge, she hurries home, gets to bed by 9. For all her fame and Susan-sized fortune (weekly salary: $600), Susan has not become bratty. Last week her composure was put to the test: when Susan put a dish of dog food before Rusty, he lifted one leg and washed away network hopes of luring a dog-food sponsor. Susan was not fazed. "Some say the camera is a monster," says she. "But I just visualize those little red lights as all the people watching, and I feel fine...