Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Don't Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids...
Scar repents his way straight to the electric chair. Later, he repents some more by coming from another world (not clear whether heaven or hell) with 14 subordinate mobsters to protect Lu, who is now an Army nurse on the battlefield. Somewhat taken aback by this rash of miracles, Red...
Dr. Semmelweis was skeptical. His first clue to the real cause was statistics showing that mortality in the First Division ward was much higher than in the others. His second clue-the death of a fellow doctor-paid off. The doctor had cut his finger while dissecting a corpse; a...
The Cry and the Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women...
Its publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay.