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...uninitiated persons the fashionable "kinetic theory" of M. Lelong seems to mean chiefly that he designs his dresses with full skirts to permit free leg movement. The French Government sent him to the U. S. in 1925 to report on the working conditions of women throughout the U. S. garment industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patron Green | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...There is no question about the punch on the left leg with a right ?a punch on Sharkey's left leg by Dempsey's right. It was a sweeping blow which glanced off the leg and it was followed by Dempsey's left to the solar plexus, which was the decisive blow as I saw it. When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...championship cup was donated. Tom Morris Jr., his whiskers now fully and handsomely grown, went again to Prestwick and won the first leg on the cup. Scottish golfers were dismayed but cheerful. What could you do against the son and pupil of old Tom Morris, who had himself won four of the first ten championships after they were started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sure & Far | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...They saw 13 steers bulldogged. In bulldogging, the cowboy gallops up to the steer, seizes its horns, slides from his horse and throws the steer on its side by leverage on its horns. Mrs. Coolidge looked away as a steer bulldogged by one Nowata Slim of Oklahoma broke its leg, was shot, dragged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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