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...were out making some pictures when they became separated for a while. Dad was charged by a rhino and was gored in the right thigh...
...Zuckerman described one case of a man injured in a recent air raid. A medium-calibre bomb fell through the roof and exploded in the same room with him. His only external injury was deep laceration of the thigh, but he died in twelve hours. Autopsy disclosed numerous hemorrhages of the lungs...
...Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
...Putsch of November 1923 Göring marched at the head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated his shoulder. Göring also fell, wounded in the thigh. Old Man Ludendorff marched on alone, firing his pistol until he was captured...
...very able man and promptly conclude that he is badly maligned. He does not do the things that politicians are supposed to do: he cannot tell a joke, seldom even laughs at a good one and cannot go through the complicated ritual-throwing back the head, slapping the thigh-which immemorial tradition holds is the proper U. S. politician's response to a bad one. His handshake is no heartier than the usual political handshake deserves to be. To reporters who pry into his political plans he talks on & on-about the need to develop new inventions, the need...