Word: splotching
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...bolted, then sprawled dead. Other "eye witnesses" told of a bland and bold acquiescence in the "execution" by Wrinkle-Face, who quietly walked out into the garden and stood up to a firing squad which shot him down. In either case mortally wounded Wrinkle-Face collapsed in a great splotch of his blood upon the snow, and one of the mustards threw a piece of matting over the corpse which was soon covered by the falling flakes...
...into the Arctic night went Sergeant Morgan and a native crew in a whaleboat, equipped with an outboard motor. Through bad, murky weather, all mist and fog, they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch...
...Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded, 2,000 taken prisoner. General Baratieri was court-martialed, finally acquitted. Premier Crispi resigned. The peace treaty returned a fine slice of Eritrea to Ethiopia, and the whole business cost Italy some $90,000,000 and a dirty splotch on her military escutcheon...
...splotch of infantile paralysis which broke out in North Carolina early this summer (TIME, June 24) had by last week spread to Virginia, dribbled into the District of Columbia. In North Carolina 496 cases had been reported; in Virginia 298; in the District of Columbia 22. The Navy ceased recruiting in Virginia and North Carolina. At the U. S. Naval Academy midshipmen were forbidden to visit the affected areas. Delaware compelled visitors from Virginia and North Carolina accompanied by children to report to local health officers for surveillance...
...what they could to make their signatures imposing. They had no Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...