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Next afternoon at 3 p.m. while Fascists yelled their war cries in front of the Reichstag, Grandmother Zetkin was carried in the back door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...
...called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return...
...herself, waiting for him to come back. He never did. She contracted tuberculosis herself, caught from him, and gradually wasted away. As she was being taken to a California hospital to die, a honeymoon couple passed the open door of the baggage car where she was lying on a stretcher. The man was her lover. He looked at her, did not recognize her, but she knew him. At the next station she was dead...
...second down, Taylor gained three yards, off tackle. On the next play Booth's pass was intercepted by Sherry, who ran the ball back to the Harvard 37-yard line. Hall, who was hurt on the play, was carried off on a stretcher, his place being taken by Bouscaron. Sullivan substituted for Parker...
...line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...