Word: stumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned...
...daring pioneering in lung surgery; one of his inventions was a chest operation in a low-pressure chamber to avoid collapse of the lungs. During World War I (a general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs, so that the muscles operated the fingers. His operations on the heart, in cancer and in bone-grafting are almost equally famous...
...preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling thought it was a fine opportunity to stump the state for Prohibition...
...loved him. But New York was certainly impressed by Ellis Arnall. He had retired from Georgia's governor ship, amid glory and catcalls, leaving Herman Talmadge, the man he called The Pretender, to exercise an uncertain reign. What were Mr. Arnall's plans now? He planned to stump the 48 states with a message for the nation. Why all 48? "I find so many delightful people every where," declaimed the little ex-governor of Georgia. "I find it a good idea to meet them...
...crutches. "You probably read about Harold in the papers," said Deaver. "He's the boy who was smashed against a storefront by an automobile last fall, the day after he joined the Marines. When the surgeons amputated, I told them, 'Just give me six inches of stump below the knee; that's all I want.' When he gets his artificial leg, you won't know he has a disability...