Word: leggedly
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...chief backer of Captain Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff's Matto Grosso expedition, was at Descalvados, their base camp, with a chartered Sikorsky amphibian last week. They will use the plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
...windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince...
Died, Eugene Ysaye, 72, famed Belgian violinist, of diabetic phlebitis which necessitated the amputation of his leg in 1929; in Brussels. Onetime (1919-22) conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, violin teacher for more than 15 years in the Brussels Conservatoire, his pupils included Elisabeth Queen of the Belgians, who went in grief to lay a wreath upon his bier...
...went down there!" they cried, pointing to a cellar door. Chief Russell drew his revolver, started downstairs. The squirrel, hiding just inside the cellar entrance, darted at the Chief, fastened itself on his trouser-leg. Believing at last, the policeman calmly kicked the animal to the bottom of the stairs. It sat there, blinking up at him. It must have rabies, he thought; he must not destroy its head, which the health authorities would want to examine. Carefully he aimed his service revolver, steadily fired, blew a hole through its shoulders. Then he went down and picked up the body...
From detailed measurement it is apparent that in the Harvard men all measurements have increased with the exception of head breath, breath of hips, and length of the upper arm. This means that Harvard men are taller and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg length, shoulder breadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip breadth. The present evolution fervency is toward an accentuation of masculine characters of body build. As a matter for fact the same is true of the college daughters...