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Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...
...formal show of sovereign independence, Cuba remains a U. S. appendix, attached not only by trade and finance but semi-politically by the Platt Amendment. Said this provision (tacked on to the 1901 Army Appropriation Bill and never since retracted): "The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the protection of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty. ..." It was under this authority that the U. S. Army occupied Cuba from 1906 to 1909 to suppress uprisings and restore constitutional government...
...always tell Louie's courses. He writes straight across both pages. Sometimes he takes the appendix home. I call him Doe when he does that--kidding. He got A in Ec A. That's a guy with imagination Joe. He goes back, he told me, sometimes as long as a year afterward and changes his handwriting and writes answers to his old gags...
...This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the government conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...
...This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the govern-ment conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...