Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Dr. L. Schoenbauer examined his ten dogs speculatively; drained off the fluid from their spinal columns; replaced the fluid with air. Then he patiently hit each dog on the head with a hammer, and in each case the dog died of concussion of the brain...
...Fuller '26, one of those arrested, was injured after being placed in the patrol wagon. Fuller had an unlighted pipe in his mouth. He was ordered to remove the pipe, but before he could comply, he was hit across the face with a night stick. The blow broke his glasses, fractured his nose, and inflicted a gash that required three stitches on his cheek...
...Fuller '30,--who was taken in the same wagon to the Brattle Square station, was arrested while standing under a Yard gate. He was hit on the head from behind, and dragged in a dazed condition to the patrol wagon. At the station he refused to give his name to anyone but the desk sergeant. He was seized by three patrolmen, dragged to the hall, and while two of them held his arms, a third knocked him unconscious with a fist blow to the face...
...President of the U. M. W. against Mr. Lewis. And hanging metaphorically to his coattail was one Powers Hapgood, nephew of Norman Hapgood, onetime Hearstling. Powers Hapgood graduated from Harvard in 1921* and is a Socialist. He may be a Communist. In a hotel lobby some Lewis men hit him with clenched fists. He hit some Lewis men, and was despatched to a police court...
...cower until, two days later, Radical Hapgood rose to criticize. Mr. Lewis pounded the desk, eyes flashing. He smelled a fight. "If you say another word," said he, "you'll have to be ejected" (on the grounds that he was not entitled to a seat). The young man hit a sergeant-at-arms on the left shoulder, but no one came to his rescue. At the desk Mr. Lewis sagged. There was to be no fight. ... So the U. M. W. constitutionally soothed themselves by voting to expell from membership all Communists...