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Show BARE SHANKS PROHIBITED An actress in West Virginia was arrested for walking on the street without hose, under an ordinance which requires that men and women be fully dressed when appearing in public. In Turkey that used be mean the wearing of a veil. Definitions are always bothersome. bother-some. Recently a man in St. Louis was sued for damages because his automobile ran into the rear of a horse which was being ridden by a man out for his morning's constitutional before sunrise. The defense was that the horse carried no tail light as required by law for all vehicles between sunset and sunrise. Bare shanks and light-less light-less horsetails may not have been in the minds of the legislators in either city, but definitions are always a puzzle. |