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...asked for a man bold enough to take the requisite drugs and, later, to have an artery of his thigh bled. The intrepid man upon whom the experiment was performed was J. B. S. Haldane...
...United States has the last reason to be priding itself, in fact, they waited an adversary until he bled from thousands of wounds after three years of the severest struggle. Why? To save the money that your fellow-countrymen had invested in the business of War. It is tell-tale fact that even now the United States, eight years after the conclusion of the War, have not yet been able to decide to lay bare the archives, which would prove that; means were employed to bring the United States into the World War and at the same time violate...
News. The Patterson-McCormick Daily News delivered such headlines as "PEACHES'S BRIDAL SECRETS," "HUNT PEACHES'S 50 SHEIKS," "OUTLAW GOLDDIGGERS! PLEADS BROWNING," "BLED OF CASH-DADDY." (The News, to be "different," sided with Mr. Browning.) All the tabloids, of course, published judiciously selected slices of the testimony...
...surely the story of Gregory Novihh, the "man of god" who was nicknamed Rasputin ("The Debauchee") and who perhaps "caused" as much as anyone the fall of the Romanovs. His power over the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that their only son, Alexis, was a hemophile, bled profusely at the navel on the slightest provocation. Doctors were powerless to stop the bleeding; but Rasputin contrived to do so, by what means will per haps never be known. He was too clever to show his debauched nature to the Tsar, who saw in him the daily savior...
...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...