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...climbed out of the car and, pretending that I had a bad limp, struggled over to the Cadillac...

Author: By William J. Lederer commander, | Title: Bill Learns How to Pull Leg Of Cadillac Driver at Harvard | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the keyboard of his stomach Steinway, his lady fans go limp, men smile wanly, and the management gets ready to peel off up to $4,000 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sheik of the Accordion | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...varsity's loss to Holy Cross Wednesday, Smith had piled up nine points and was playing rebounds well, when he suddenly began to limp badly while running up the court. Time was called, Smith was taken out of the game, and Stevenson went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain Smith Breaks Leg; Stevenson Hurts Foot Badly | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

Stevenson played the rest of the game, and ended it without any sign of a limp. Yesterday morning his foot hurt, and he had X-rays taken, which indicated either a broken bone in the arch of his right foot or a bad bruise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain Smith Breaks Leg; Stevenson Hurts Foot Badly | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...whole thing is shoddily fitted out with desperate gags, limp and feeble bits of farce, and characters who make depressing conversationalists. As satire on an ill-advised lust for money, it is merely the potboiler calling the kettle black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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