Word: scar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only scar I bear,' he said, 'is on my foot. I could show to you now if I were to take off my shoe. I got it by stepping on a red-hot iron chip in my bare feet at my father's blacksmith shop...
...impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain an issue...
Persuaded by his skilled publicity, Sadie Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added...
With an operation scar healed, with his cheeks pink from the mountain air of Virginia Hot Springs, Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, last week called on Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington and said he would return to his post Jan. 14. He has been absent since June...
...John Garth, a London literary machine capable of producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds...