Word: legs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
...House of Commons an attempt to pull Sir John's leg was made by another, more humorous, Scot, Austin Hopkinson, M. P. "Will not the Right Honorable Gentleman," he suggested, "take it upon himself to order that all third class eggs shall be rubber stamped with the Scottish national motto: Nemo me impune lacessit...
...king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him not only all his bodily woes...
George C. Hoover, attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission, cousin of the President-Elect, was knocked down last week in Washington by an automobile driven by Fannie P. Dial, daughter of onetime Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial of South Carolina. Cousin Hoover's injuries were a fractured leg, a bruised body. Miss Dial picked him up, put him in her car, drove to a hospital. No charge was made against...
...stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground, he exclaimed: "This is a fine to-do! I wonder how far LeBrix is by this time?" Joseph LeBrix had passed Tunis, was almost in Cairo...