Word: gills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
Bang! Mrs. Joseph Gill, wife of the president of Florida Power and Light Co., staggered down the bandstand steps, grievously wounded in the abdomen...
Next morning Mr. Roosevelt paid a second visit to the hospital before starting for New York. Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill were holding their own. Perhaps they would not die after all. The President-elect urged the Mayor to "hurry up and get well in time to attend the inaugural." Later aboard his private car Mr. Roosevelt called newshawks about him, calmly gave them his version of what happened...
...daughter exchanged for a Trojan prisoner. Greek Warrior Diomede cocks his helmet at her, and soon to good purpose. Pining Troilus hears rumors of Cressida's faithlessness. When they are confirmed he is not sorry to meet death on Achilles' spear. Famed English Sculptor Eric Gill (who did inter alia the Leeds University War Memorial and London's Westminster Cathedral's Stations of the Cross) has enhanced the text with 50 woodcuts...
POWYS (T.F.) Uncle Dottery. With two wood-engravings by Eric Gill. One of 350 signed copies...