Word: limpness
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Frederick Trubee Davison broke his back flying in the War but lived, with a vigorous limp, to write a letter to his four sons describing "the most exciting and dangerous two minutes I have ever been through." The two minutes had to do with elephants, not airplanes. The letter reached the U. S. last week from Nairobi where Father Davison, now president of the American Museum of Natural History after seven years as Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, went collecting with his wife last month...
...rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...
...Sears, Roebuck, old Clarence Darrow, Economist Stuart Chase. Two collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott the Technocrat let off a preliminary bombast: ''We want men of action and when I say men, I mean males and females. Our light...
...citizenship. His explanation: his father, who died when his son was 14, had been naturalized, which automatically made his minor children citizens. The naturalization papers were lost in a Joplin fire. Short, stout and smiling, Mayor-elect Shaw wears a brace on his right leg, walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public works program, and the dismissal of Chief of Police Roy Steckel and Captain William Hynes...
...Evangelismos Hospital. Nimbly out of the bullet-riddled car stepped Eleutherios Venizelos, since 1910 eight times Premier of Greece, bitter foe of present Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Startled internes leaped forward, helped 68-year-old M. Venizelos, who was unscathed, to lift from the floor of the car the limp body of his rich wife. Blood oozed from her clothing. After a hasty examination doctors found that four bullets had grazed her lungs and stomach but that she would live. Dead lay a Venizelos bodyguard...