Word: bowleggedness
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Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army...
Last week unstable Hernandez struck again. In Atares Fortress, in the San Ambrosio and Dragones military posts, sections of the Army in sympathy with the ABC opposition rebelled in an effort to restore the brief conservative government of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Leading the Atares rebels was bowlegged old Hernandez...
A short, squat, bowlegged manifestation of dignity is waddling up Mass. Avenue towards the Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black...
¶ In 1930 President Hoover sent a special diplomatic delegation to Addis Ababa for the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World. Last week the Abyssinian sovereign royally returned the courtesy when his mahogany...
¶ Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, light-heavyweight champion: a fight against stubby, bowlegged Adolph Heuser of Germany, in which Rosenbloom jabbed, slapped and cuffed his game opponent for 15 rounds without closing his fist for a single honest punch; in Manhattan.