Better walk on wooden legs than be carried on a wooden bier. (Danish) Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet....

Diagram of an insect leg A leg is the part of an animal 's body that supports the rest of the animal above the ground between the ankle and the hip and is used for locomotion . The end of the leg furthest from the animal's body is often either modified...

Forty-three years after his death the old comrades of the now legendary Jack "Legs" Diamond are reminiscing atop their bar-stools in a somewhat boozier than Conradian vein. Among them, her memory juiced-up by the drink, one Flossie recalls that Diamond "had a tan collie, could count to fifty-two and do subtraction", that he "could turn on the electric light sometimes just by snapping his fingers", that "he could tie both his shoes at once". But the sto...

"Legs" translated the career of a gangster into a shimmering, witty story that combined fact and myth to prod at our national ambivalence toward celebrity criminals. The disappointment of ["Billy Phelan's Greatest Game"] is not that it lacks its predecessor's magnetic core, but that its core is so weak that its author seems to disdain it: the story's depth, as someone once said, is entirely on the surface…. But it is a surface polished to a high gloss&...