Word: scar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a young German cadet rubbed dirt into his small dueling wounds that they might grow the greater. Many a major's pride was the livid white scar running from lip to ear which marks the man tough enough to endure the severing and sewing on of a whole cheek...
When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
...rages among the athletes of the world; a famed metropolitan daily recently referred to the "channel-swimming game," thereby placing this activity in the same category with such recognized diversions as "the advertising game," "the cloak-and-suit game," etc. Last week three swimmers attempted to traverse the angry scar of seas between Calais and Dover-Lieut. Col. Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V. C., Mile. Jeanne Sion, Miss Lillian Harrison. Last week's aspirants were veteran swimmers; all, after tremendous exertions, failed...
...Hermit. His incest with his lovely daughter seemed perfectly pure and natural to him. He had a genius for love. Robust, red-faced, scar- cheeked, with naked lids' over his dark eyes, Savel the sawyer settled in a cave after his acquittal, dedicated himself effectively to the needs of the love-starved peasantry, healing chiefly by the epithet "dearest," pronounced with a great compassion...
...heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from the flesh of the leg. He will then separate heel from leg. "Except for a scar on the leg, the man will be quite normal...