Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he adopts moderately, and to Evelyn, an anemic young lost lady of the bars, whom he idealizes and takes unto himself with comparative propriety. Gaslit love* in a hall bedroom lasts until she gets a chance to go on the road with one of the immoral, new-fangled "leg-shows." Sam celebrates her departure with an attack of pneumonia that cancels his disgrace at home. Recovered, he devotes his disillusioned attention to Succeeding...
Smith was especially hampered by a fractured leg which he suffered last year and which was paining him. A blister also added to his troubles together with the slippery footing of the ice covered road...
...surgeon motioned to his assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which...
...operating table lay a little girl. One leg was shorter than the other. One hip was dislocated, had been so from her birth. The doctor was going to help her. He was going to make her like other little girls, whose rompings she had so envied. So she looked up at her benefactor, hopefully, trustfully...
...curled at the foot of the boy's bed. Nothing could ever separate them, they thought−but something did. It was an automobile. It struck Ruff while he was crossing the road, and after that the Airedale lay quite still and never again pawed with his leg or sniffed with his nose. Dick McDevitt did not understand what people meant when they said the dog was dead. Dead! A stupid word; but he repeated it to himself until it seemed to take on a meaning. His father † dug a hole in the ground, and asked Dick McDevitt...