Word: hospitalers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reality. The realities of war are suffering and death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as...
"These have been the most terrible hours since the siege began," he went on. "Despite the terrible loss of human lives, Warsaw will be defended. We will never give in. ... German planes bombed Little Jesus [Hospital] a few moments ago."
Lean, stiletto-nosed John Bowman was a shy, dreamy boy. At 7 he resolved: "I would be a poet. I would always feel beautiful inside and be large and kind and beneficial and be honored and do good." At Columbia University, where he went to teach English after graduation from...
By way of celebration, spry but ailing General Pershing showed himself to newsmen at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. It was the 13th day of World War II.
When it was over they carried Lou to a hospital with a good start on his first cauliflower ear. Tony went back to his New Jersey barroom, with his puffy eyes on Detroit and a great bully-boy future. Said he: "I'll knock out dat bum Louis in...