Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, the two principals and their seconds met for combat. The two men stripped, whipped out their swords, stood face to face. There was a sharp "Engages!" and the two pieces of steel began to grind and clash. The contest was short. M. Massard, the challenger, flicked a small wound in the sword hand of his opponent. Three doctors fled into the field, declared the wound slight, but Gaudin could not continue. Honor was satisfied...
...only fireworks in the inaugural ceremonies at Washington, carefully planned to achieve economy and sedateness, were the speech and actions of Vice President Dawes. Instead of accepting the office with all the customary trite mouthings of the nation's highest-paid figurehead, he wound up carefully and clipped the corner of the senatorial plate with a simply fiendish accuracy...
Died. Federal District Judge John F McGee, 64; in Minneapolis, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Harassed by Prohibition problems, he said he feared for his mind. Known throughout the Northwest as the "bootleggers' terror," he, upon one occasion, sentenced 112 offenders in three hours, collected $33,700 from them in fines...
...suffered a wound in the leg, was mustered out, returned to the U. S. He played here and there, made money, gave it away. In Austria, 17 Russian, British, French, Italian artists he knew, were stranded, penniless. For three years he supported them, their families. He contributed to the U. S. Red Cross. Feeling against Germany, against Austria, was growing. People knew that he had served in the Austrain Army. Sometimes, when he played in U. S. cities, there were boos and catcalls jumbled with the applause; sometimes a disorderly hiss would interrupt his, music. In 1917, he canceled...
Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour...