Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knives & Needles. Frightened sick people in the Ukraine kept on trudging to Comrade Dr. Nelski despite his nickname, "The Slasher." With 600 major operations to his credit up to last week, he reigned as Chief Surgeon of a group of Soviet hospitals at Kiev. Nurses sometimes fainted at the gory gusto of his "carving." But always Comrade Dr. Nelski sewed up his gaping incisions with admirable neatness - as neatly as a cobbler stitching uppers to a sole. Last week a stern Kiev judge sentenced "The Slasher" to six years in jail. He had confessed that his real name is Ivan...
...Austria Hungary. "You must stop them from flogging your soldiers!" cried Elizabeth. To Franz Josef this was an astonishing, irrational request. For centuries Hungarian soldiers had been flogged "when delinquent." But on the spot, he humored his pink-cheeked, starry-eyed wife by signing a decree which has kept Hungarian soldiers from being flogged ever since. 1929. In Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval...
...unceasing efforts of Farrell that the veteran trainer was kept alive while en route to the United States, and when the liner docked in New York he was rushed by motor ambulance to Boston, where he died soon after his return...
...were the highest human ideals, we would reply, 'Truth and virtue'. If he were to be informed that our highest form of human speech was not designed for expression of our best ideals he would probably return to the moon with a strange idea of our earth, where we kept our best speech for our second best thoughts...
...Kept Woman Authoress Delmar again looks at Bronx domesticity, makes the colloquial-trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances...