Word: anvils
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...himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income of his own, he was free to devote much of his time to organizing Scottish Rite crippled children's homes...
...swift years the once obscure Italian editor has carried his once negligible country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
...Waldman of Cleveland, just because Mr. Waldman had once known Mrs. Ida Rose Cooper, she sent magic fireballs into their windows at night. Mr. Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed Mrs. Cooper last week, headlines ran NO MORE FIREBALLS FOR WITCH SLAYER...
...This, my palace of Westminster," said he, "is the very cradle of our envied parliamentary institutions. Here is the anvil on which our common law was forged to become the joint inheritance of the United States of America and our own community of peoples...
Finish. In Los Angeles, one Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, threw two 200-lb. beer kegs in the air and caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which...