Word: sling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming the national chairmanship of the Anti Gang Rule League, new and obscure crime prevention organization, Cartoonist Percy Lee Crosby (Skippy), took a sling shot at gangdom's Goliath. Said Chairman Crosby, famed for his personal newspaper advertisements against Prohibition (TIME, Feb. 16): "If invited, I will go to Chicago to meet Al Capone in his own territory, without gun permit or bodyguard...
...around Bombay, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Benares, Mr. Brailsford examined many Indian men and women bearing "wounds on teh feets or bruises on the stomach, made with the butt end of a rifle . . . one man with a terribly swollen arm, fractured or dislocated, hanging in a sling . . . a woman [with] a badly swollen face caused by a blow...
Elsie Janis, musicomedienne, explained why she carried her arm in a sling: she had been wrestling, clowning with Cinemactor Ramon Novarro at her Hollywood home. Said she: "It was just too ridiculous. ... I was just about ready to claim victory when he gave his body a slight twist and my shoulder slipped out of place...