Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every Saturday for the past ten-years I've climbed that tower too wind the machinery and I can tell you it's no easy job. There's a weight of about pounds which is at the end of a cable wound round a spool. When we wind the clock it means that the weight has to be lifted 100 feet. The bells are rung by a weight of 1500 pounds which has to be lifted the same height. As a rule it takes me nearly an hour to finish...
...pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count Bethlen proceeded merely to touch vaguely upon all the theories so far advanced to account for the crime, and wound up by stating that its "purely criminal aspects" must be left strictly in the hands of the courts, but that he would welcome a Parliamentary investigation into the Government's responsibility. After several days of party dickering an investigating committee was formed and began to deliberate in secret...
Hands Up. Famous players nave taken their newest comedian and wound him round with a Civil War burlesque. The action is somewhat mischievously placed in Utah, and Brigham Young and most of his wives are added for eccentric complication. The comedian is Raymond Griffith and the play has a double happy-ending. Thanks to the proximity of Salt Lake City, the hero is permitted to marry both his sweethearts...
Holding with Shakespeare, Christian Scientists and prestidigitators that "nothing is but thinking makes it so," Mrs. Annie Besant, 'grand old lady of India" and moving spirit of the Order of the Star in the East (also called the Theosophical Society), wound up the celebration of that Order's 50th anniversary (TIME, Jan. 4) by exhorting a public gathering at Adyar (near Madras) to turn their thought toward the far Himalayan heights and beseech the world's Saviour (for her and her followers the Brahmin, Shri Krishna, of 500 B.C.) to hasten his reincarnation and the worlds salvation...
...Master of the Inn. In a rather complicate and generally unconvincing contraption the gospel of doing good to others does not impress. The master in point had been disappointed in love and was healing his own wound by taking care of others of the world's unfortunates. The girl he loved and her erratic husband were numbered in this considerable category. He cured them both and returned them to their happiness with no apparent purpose except the proverbially reciprocal reward of virtue...