Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this should be by increasing the weight of the hammer, by decreasing the length of the handle, or by some other means, is for experts to determine. The change should at any rate be sufficient to allow the event to be seen by spectators without unduly endangering life and limb. It should be such as to retain the good features of the hammer-throw, and must eliminate the very obvious objections to the present event...
...course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows much more vividly the problem and the horrors of child slavery than many another playwright who has avowedly written of it alone...