Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes. Ever lie hear.; in his heart the voice of the once happy squirrel, reproaching him for the hurt he did her furry side, her tender paw, and he weeps with regret in the sullen copice, uncomforted. The squirrel, unable to support any longer the pain of her wound, falls swooning at his feet. He picks her up. He bandages with fumbling care her paw in a silk ribbon. Ah, how they rejoice then, the creatures who before harangued him ; how shyly they regard him, transfixed at his compassion ! Now he will learn his lessons...
...Backslapper pours salt in the wound opened by The Show-Off. The latter comedy tells of a man who has a tongue of honey and a heart of gold; the backslapper's talk runs freely enough, but underneath there is the shark heart of the hypocrite...
...turned his hand to school-teaching and minor peculations, then lived a while with his father. The strain of this hypocrisy was too great, however. Soon he was off to Canada, where he established a most profitable counterfeiting establishment beyond reach of the U. S. law. That he wound up in the Catholic Church argues, perhaps, a retarded outcropping of his Puritanical upbringing ; perhaps one last hypocrisy to ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto...
When Chapman was finally sentenced to hang, the editorial pages wound up the affair with: "Served him right," "Thus always with malefactors," "Now will you be good," "A splendid example of American justice," and similar sentiments reminiscent of the great days of Harry K. Thaw, Nicky Arnstein and "Lefty Louie...
...Cheyenne, the Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease...