Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further, she informed John Blymyer that the only way in which he could break the charm that made him sickly, that made his pigs die, that made sweat break out on his face in the dead of night, was to steal from Rehmeyer his book, The Long Lost Friend, or else get a lock of his hair and bury it eight feet underground. John Blymyer got two young fellows, John Curry and Wilbert Hess; Rehmeyer had hexed them too, he said. The three of them went down to Rehmeyer's farmhouse one night in the autumn to get the book...
Prior to sorting out events and titles, keen observers sharpened their wits by trying to identify as many face cards as possible in the following well shuffled hand of potent names...
...crawled from the wrecked limousine. His nose was broken. Prudent, cool-headed and courageous, he insisted upon being rushed by train to Paris as soon as a provincial doctor had cleaned and bound his wounds. At home, in his sumptuous house Joseph Caillaux presently entrusted his bald head, lacerated face and body to the Professors Laurent and Revaux...
...their first bulletin the Professors confidently predicted complete recovery. Candid, they described dealing with the Senator's face in such thoroughgoing fashion that "it will be temporarily impossible for him to take food, except through a tube piercing the bandages...
...Flight in the face of maternity?that divine maternity that, together with some brief physical suffering, gives the loftiest and deepest joys of life?is as culpable as the desertion of soldiers in the face of the enemy, as the attempt of the taxpayer to escape the payment of taxes...