Word: leggedly
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...plot, Henry IV poses the cool Hal against the fiery Hotspur; but for theme it poses Hotspur against Falstaff, contrasting on a mighty scale the romantic and realistic ways life. To great-hearted Hotspur honor is everything. But Falstaff asks: "Can honor set to a leg? . . . Honor hath no skill in surgery then? . . . Who hath honor?-he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. . . . Therefore I'll none of it." So Falstaff lives; and Hotspur dies...
...Hartley, Neb., while John Proud milked his cow, the cow stepped on a cat's tail. The cat scratched the cow. The cow kicked at the cat, struck John Proud's wife, broke her left leg. As Proud pulled his wife out of further harm's way, the cow kicked again, broke the left leg of John Proud...
Coach Ulen's tutees did not exactly shine but the opposition offered by the "Y" did not lend itself to record-breaking efforts on anyone's part. Bill Runge, of Boston, with wins in the 50 and 100, and a relay leg, was the sturdiest performer of the meet, while Eric Cutler's two victories in the distance events also stood out, particularly his 2:18.2 furlong. All three of Harvard's breast rokers were vastly improved, Mr. Ulen noted with approval...
...made more news than the crash. Three employes of the nearby plant of North American Aviation saw an injured man in the wreck, dragged him out. The Douglas company identified the passenger as "Smithin, a mechanic." But reporters learned at Santa Monica Hospital that the man with a broken leg, wrenched back and battered head was in fact Captain Paul Chemidlin, a French military observer...
...ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone peg had been completely absorbed and replaced by the human bone...