Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
...hand Mr. Roosevelt a long telegram. The President- elect started to read- Bang! Joe Zangara was standing up on a wobbly bench among the spectators firing his pistol at President-elect Roosevelt not 35 ft. away. The first shot dropped Margaret Kruis, Newark showgirl, with a head wound...
...such lectures is rarely inspiring, rarely contains important commentary, and is frequently only evidence of the effort of the lecturer to fulfill his obligation to the University by speaking for a full hour three times each week. Indeed, the professor who turned to the toastmaster, saying, "I am wound up to speak fifty-five minutes. I must apologize in advance," spoke with lamentable accuracy...
...Hemingway, however, or, in reading any work of friction, it is possible to read oneself into the character of the leading personage. This apparently is what Mr. Fadiman has done, Where others become an imaginary individual for an hour, dropping the false robes with the book, he has so wound and entwined himself in the Hemingway toils that he is unable to escape. Further, he assumes that all the young readers of Mr. Hemingway have done the same, an idea, fortunately, somewhat fallacious. Many may regard the author of "Death in the Afternoon", as a fit subject for Thurber...
...time he expends in putting on makeup. For The Mummy, Karloff's preparations took eight hours. He dampened his face, covered it with strips of cotton, applied collodion and spirit gum, pinned his ears back, covered his head with clay, painted himself with 22 kinds of greasepaint, then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic preliminaries preceded a horror picture which contains only one genuinely hair-raising moment-when the words of a charm are accidentally spoken by a young archeologist...