Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were a lightning trigger finger, a fondness for cigars, and a heart bearing the name "Roy" tattooed on her thigh. Roy Thornton was the name of her husband, but since he began serving a long sentence at Houston, Tex., her companion has been the other person for whom Captain Hamer was looking-Clyde Barrow. Clyde Barrow's youth in Dallas was devoted to stealing automobiles...
...Marshall, Ark., at the first two lines of a limerick Emmett Slay chuckled. At the next two he snickered. At the last one he roared boisterously, slapped his hip, discharged a pistol in his pocket, shot a friend in the thigh...
When six minutes had elapsed since the last heartbeat, sallow young Dr. Robert E. Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge...
...Learned with dismay that doctors feared for the life of the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, 74-year-old Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who fell down the steps of Gainsborough Town Hall last week and broke his thigh...
...thrown a newsreel of the U. S. Navy and the four Princetonians variously stating their case to the public. One steps forward to say: "We want the world to know that whether on the football field or in life, Princeton men can take it." Through the hip-and-thigh farce that shook Manhattan audiences with glee glimmers human comedy, warm and amiably observed. The Princeton boys are sly and expert parodies of undergraduates. One sings a burlesque of a Triangle Club song with typical undergraduate ingenuities...