Word: leggedly
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...years, since, indeed the time when Garibaldi lived in Brooklyn and the daisy chain had buxom links, Freddie has served the public, privately, of Boston. Last night he again moved effectively, convincingly over modern streets, an anachronism, with a bad leg. So when those who out of generosity and victory donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly...
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...wooden leg was an asset but the good leg was a liability. People looked coldly at the liability, passed by. One Malcolm Norris, 21, beggar, sat in a San Francisco street last week, pondered, arose, hobbled to a railroad track. He bound a rude tourniquet above his knee, thrust out the liability to convert it into an asset, as a train snorted by. The conversion failed; he died three hours later...
...Boland broke his leg. Fred Collins broke his jaw. But even with its biggest tackle and its fullback hurt, Notre Dame had dash enough left to beat Minnesota...
...cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair of spindling spruces. Ranger Irons began to .climb. The bear climbed after him. Long claws reached out, divested him of a rubber boot; he was almost at the top of the tree. The claws reached out again; his leg was bleeding, his courage broken, his strength gone. Death, clumsy and terrible, with red eyes, groped after him along a veering limb. And then came the thud of galloping hoofs below, a cavalcade, with rescue in every tossing neck, waited for Dave Irons below. While the frightened bear scrambled...