Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper hands) eases pain and helps cure boils, carbuncles, cancer, neuritis, neuralgia (Dr. Roy Fouts of Omaha). Heat can remove tonsils without surgery, by cutting off their blood supply (Dr. Frederick Louis Wahrer of Marshalltown, Iowa...
...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...
...down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when he wins a fight, was made even more than normally ferocious by a red worm of blood that crawled down into his left eye. In the eighth round he pushed Walker against the ropes, shouted, "Come on and fight." The referee, indicating the winner of each round, thereupon pointed to Hudkins. but after most other rounds he pointed to Walker, lifted Walker's hand...
...defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems to be pointing at inoffensive people and gratuitously calling them incestuous. There may be reason for dissecting a diseased corpse; there can be none for clubbing...
...Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides him. A drop of blood reveals his presence to Rance. Then Minnie and Rance play poker for the life of the wounded bandit. Minnie cheats and wins. But in the last act Rance cheats too. So that Johnson is captured and is about to be lynched when Minnie dashes up on horseback, pleads...