Word: bloode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother's injury from a radio bulletin as he was riding home from a union session, accompanied by two bodyguards, in the armored car the union recently bought for him. At Redford Receiving Hospital he comforted 37-year-old Vic while the doctors pumped four pints of blood into him. "Remember, Vic," said Walter, "how you held my hand a year ago. Now I'm holding yours. Keep fighting, Vic, keep fighting." Vic mumbled, "Look after the kids . . . and Sophie." At Henry Ford Hospital, where he was transferred a few hours later, doctors dug six pieces of lead...
Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...
...with the blood of several persecuted minorities coursing through his veins, I feel I may express myself on this subject. Paul W. Friedrich...
...parched, desertic world-not of a dark so much as of an ash-grey age-in which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...
...awards, amounting to $65,000 in commissions and purchases, would not be announced until the exhibition closed in September. Meanwhile, flesh & blood visitors could wander amidst the best contemporary sculpture of 13 countries and pick their own favorites...