Word: pegleg
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With world headlines screaming the nearest thing to outbreak of a Russo-Japanese war, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies was last week a busy conciliator in Moscow, conferring with pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and portly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff between the bouts of these two diplomats over a pair of uninhabited islands covered with swamp grass which seemed capable of setting Eastern Asia more or less aflame...
...King, whose specialty is the reproduction of romantic and dangerous backgrounds, has done well with the photography, making the story look a little different as it follows its familiar outlines. John Holland is the gallant American adventurer. Best sound-shot: the stumping, sinister footsteps of a man with a pegleg...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...