Word: bareleggedness
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Tokyo realized, but not the rest of Japan. A poor telephone connection, the noise of the storm, caused radio broadcasters to believe that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating...
Helen Wills and plump Francis Hunter lost, as they did last year, the mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as...