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...murderers by the sleeve, but he shook him self free. Two mOre shots rang out. One entered Cullen's neck and fatally wounded him, the other fortunately missed Miss Brennan. The latter now rushed back to her brother to find that he had been shot in the abdomen and chest. "I am dying, Shirley," he moaned. "Fod God's sake, Bill, you're not," cried .'Shirley. "I know I'm dying," Brennan con tinued. "My poor wife, my poor child ! Poor Mary!" Realizing that her brother was dying Miss Brennan said : "Do you know...
Outside the old site of the American Embassy in Tokyo, an unidentified male, about the age of 40, committed hara-kiri (suicide by disemboweling). With a small dagger he slit his abdomen crosswise and then upward "in the classical way" and slashed his neck. Two letters were found by his corpse, one to "The People of the Japanese Empire," which was not published, but was understood to call upon the nation to rise and avenge the insult of the U. S. Immigration Act; one to "The American Ambassador and the American People...
...rheostat" and a "measuring rheostat" for determining the wave rate "ohmage" of the specimen. These are connected to an electrode on the forehead of a healthy human being, called the " re-agent," who stands stripped to the waist and barefooted on two metal grounding plates. The doctor "percusses" the abdomen of the reagent, i.e., thumps the back of his left hand with the middle finger of his right, on which is a weighted thimble. The abdomen normally shows a "line of dullness," below which a hollow sound is elicited. Different diseases in the patient's blood specimen cause different "areas...
...Sitka. Either the crabs or some canned foods aboard the Henderson were not good. During the night several members of the party became indisposed, among them Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover, George B. Christian, Jr., Secretary to the President, and Mr. Harding himself. The President suffered from pains in his abdomen during the night...
...first round Signor Giunta received a blow in the abdomen, but, as he had managed partly to parry the thrust, he was only struck with the flat of his opponent's sword. In the second round both combatants were wounded, Forni in the face and right hand, Giunta in the right arm. The doctors then stopped the bout...