Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Holy Name Cathedral (the archiepiscopal seat) is a domed exposition hall where will be placed objects of religious veneration and admiration?relics of saints, holy pictures, chalices of antique manufacture and unique design, vestments worn by prelates who have made Catholic history, a replica of the skin and birchbark chapel where in 1674 Father Jacques Marquette (1637-75) celebrated the first Chicago Mass before a band of Indians, mission artifacts...
...friendly with every one and keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort...
Thompson and Clark, who had come up with Warner, left ahead of the others, travelling on houseback to Lanehow where they came down the Yellow river on a small skin raft to the railhead and a hence by rail to Peking. Starr, Stimson and Warner brought up Lie rear more slowly on carts till they too reached the river and changed to a raft. On the return march five sets of small early Buddhist cave chapels were explored, two of them hitherto unreported. The early sculpture at these sites had been entirely destroyed and the wall paintings had been restored...
Died. William Henry Johnson, 84, known as "Zip," for more than 60 years exhibited by P. T. Barnum and others because of his stunted figure, comical head, dark skin, great nose and amusing tuft of hair; in Manhattan of lobar pneumonia and bronchitis...
...enough. The condition of Hemenway would hardly be fitting for an abbatoir. Nor are the results far to seek. If the man next to you in class wears a mask of diseased flesh, he is a wrestler who lost a bout to one or several of the loathsome skin infections that roam at large in our gymnasium. And if, presently you wear a similar mask, though you never went within a block of Hemenway, it just goes to prove that rumour is not the only thing that spreads. Some day the bugs will take that gymnasium up by the roots...