Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held up Placard 2 the band stopped playing "California, Here I Come" and fell into "Happy Days Are Here Again," Governor Rolph's official tune. Along toward Placard 15 a talking film of President Hoover urging the Senate to balance the Budget was thrown on the screens. Another placard wound up the demonstration with "Onward Christian Soldiers...
...Fleming I naturally took part in the Flemish independence movement. For this I was persecuted by the Government. I lost my job as lamplighter. ' Now I am only a common workman and work is scarce. My motive for firing among the Deputies was personal revenge. I hoped to wound but I did not want to kill." (Deputy Uytroever was expected to recover...
...Conn., June 20--Final workouts for the four Harvard crews in the last few days of training here before the race on Friday took on a lighter aspect today, the greater part of the stiff paddles having been wound up with Saturday's succession of time trials...
Bounding to his feet Witness Hitler yelled 'That's a lie! Were such things true I'd shoot myself." Clenching his fists. pounding a tattoo on the courtroom table he wound up screaming: "I won't be insulted! I could not justify myself before my millions of followers if I stood for this! I will no longer answer these Jew lawyers! Not another question, though I will answer anything asked by the Court...
Like many a rebel against orthodoxy, George Grosz was a youngest child. His father was a restaurant owner, of the same solid bourgeoisie the son now satirizes. In the War, Grosz fought first in the Kaiser Franz Regiment, then in the 52nd, became a sergeant, was invalided without a wound...