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Professional Pride. In Manhattan, contrite Kibitzer Salvator Coliarono told the judge that Card-Player Francisco Vella was well justified in shooting him in the thigh...
Able, friendly Ed Thye (pronounced thigh) owes everything to Harold Stassen, who hand-picked him as his successor when Stassen resigned as governor to enter the Navy early in 1943. Thus when Stassen decided that he could best further his chances outside the Senate, Ed Thye was ready with his candidacy. Stassenites had expected an obstacle: plump, vivacious Mrs. Myrtle Thye, who greatly enjoys being Minnesota's First Lady. There was gossip in Minneapolis that perhaps Harold Stassen himself had had a talk with her. There had been another point: there would have to be a strong candidate...
Such tests helped him determine how fast his big thigh muscles were reviving. In time, four-pound duraluminum braces replaced the heavier steel frames...
...Farewell, Then, Sweetheart." Between battles, Sir Richard reminisced: "There was a bruise on your left thigh." Often he muttered tenderly: "Beloved half-wit!" At last, Honor flung off the bed sheets "and let him look upon the crumpled limbs that he had once known whole and clean." "Farewell, then, sweetheart," cried Richard, and rode away...
...Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...