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...Hatfield-McCoy feuds of the Pine Mountains of Kentucky 50 years ago, son of famed Anderson (''Devil Anse") Hatfield (died 1921, past 80), cousin of West Virginia's Senator Henry Drury Hatfield; of a brain ailment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was said to have been fired at 300 times, hit once...
...outbreak of the War, the narrator-hero of Wooden Swords was just finishing his military service, comfortably suffering from an imaginary ailment in the comparatively restful infirmary. Mobilization cured him. Sent to Rheims as part of a convoy to a supply train, he and a comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes...
...unsuccessful seasons, could not pay their house charges. Shepherd Royle jovially diagnosed the present condition of show business as similar to the plight of a legendary unfortunate who was "shot in the liver, lights, vitals and lower part of the saloon." The audible cinema he considered a contributory ailment...
...exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...
...remained in order, Captain Dickey at number three and Sturges at bow, as shifted there by Coach Whiteside last Wednesday. Colloredo-Mannsfeld, Sophomore stroke who it was feared would be unable to take his usual seat when practice was inaugurated at the Connecticut quarters because of a minor ailment, was in his place when the shell left the float...