Word: leggedly
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...tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...
...clock tomorrow 45 members of the University Glee Club will leave for Hartford, Connecticut, on the first leg of a Spring tour which will end in Canada after a series of five concerts. The feature of the tour will be the appearance of the Harvard singers in conjunction with the Princeton Glee Club in a program devoted entirely to sacred music. The first appearance of the club following vacation will be in a program especially for students in Paine Hall on April 21. Tickets will be $.50 for members of the University. Because of Madame Matzenauer's inability to appear...
...Wooster, Ohio, last week an old man who had recently had a leg amputated at the hip was made very happy. He was Dean Emeritus Elias Compton of the College of Wooster. He had just learned that his son. Professor Karl Taylor Compton, chairman of Princeton's physics department, had been made 11th President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...flower-decked room in German Deaconess Hospital, Chicago, lay Frank McErlane, prime Chicago underworldling. Suspended aloft in a stretching apparatus was his bullet-shattered leg. Into his room, when his nurse was absent, suddenly broke two hostile beer gangsters. From under his pillow, Gangster McErlane whipped out a gun, fired five shots. Before they retreated, the beer gangsters put three fresh wounds into their bed-ridden enemy...
Near St. Petersburg, Fla., a rattlesnake spied baseballer George Herman ("Babe'') Ruth hunting quail, sneaked after him. bit a hunting dog in the leg, sneaked away without biting "Babe" Ruth. While his friend administered serum to the dog. "Babe" Ruth, incensed, set out after the snake with a large...