Word: stretchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought someone in or out. The dead were off to one side. The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station and the night was getting cold. Stretcher bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. As soon...
...Hans C. Andersen's but, like the latter's, was meant for children. Why study mass-psychology to find out why -Obscenity deleted. the Y charged six francs for cigarettes when the army canteen across the street charged five? At Montfalcon they even charged a wounded man (stretcher case) for cigarettes and by God he had to pay before he got them-correction, a shavetail did the paying; the buck didn't have any pants. F. Palmer and the Inspector-General know which side their bread is buttered on and the A. E. F. buck private knows...
...Corporal Puddifoot of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
...Haven contingent boasted a strong outfit, and with Gehrke out of the Harvard lineup, little favor was bestowed on the University eleven. Gehrke was carried onto the field on a stretcher, from all appearances to witness the game. Momentary attention was focused on him and then all eyes were turned to the start of play at the kickoff. Four or five minutes after the first whistle Harvard made a substitution, and to the amazement of all, the substitute was Gehrke himself. The team pulled together and for a wild first half swept the much more powerful Eli outfit...
Actually the stretcher bearers panted forth with a huge but unimportant Red Guard, one Artemiv Walkov. Lucky, he had escaped the Death which struck down his companion on guard duty, Michail Ivanov. No other casualties were reported...