Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Barry Stephens, an artists' agent who has looked at legs long enough to tell one Radio City Rockette from another, called a turn: "The scrawny, thin leg is out. A fuller calf and a longer thigh is the trend, and we men see a return to the 'beef trusters.' " Notable among his fuller-calfed, longer-thighed legs: Alice Faye's, Ann Miller's, Betty Grable's. Marlene Dietrich's? "Too skinny...
Though the ball is about the size and hardness of a baseball, none of the fielders wears gloves except the wicket keeper (catcher), whose gloves resemble a hockey player's gloves, with less padding. Batsmen wear leg pads something like a hockey goalie's, and thumb and finger guards. When cricket immortals like the late, great, bearded William Gilbert ("W.G.") Grace smote the ball, it practically tore a fielder's hand...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans -demands more science and judgment...
...Leg before wicket: when the umpire rules that the batter's leg - -and not his bat - kept the ball from hitting the wicket...
...Life of Mozart," despite its Continental origin, is disfigured with every one of the flaws which have so consistently distinguished Hollywood's musical biographies. The philosophy which broke Cole Porter's leg to provide a crisis for "Night and Day" has unfortunately seeped into the portrayal of a real composer: it is made all the more annoying by the realization that such an expedient is equivalent to tinning the lily which is Mozart's life...