Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk sash; and John Worsham, a foot soldier with Stonewall Jackson in the Great Valley...
...story of Clarence Saunders' disconnection with Piggly Wiggly is the story of how Piggly Wiggly went to the Stock Market and wound up in the stock yard. In November, 1922, when Mr. Saunders was Piggly Wiggly's successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors...
Clifford B. Longley, Chicago born, was taken to Kalamazoo when he was old enough to talk. He talked his way successfully through grade schools and the better part of a high school course. Then he went back to Chicago, studied engineering and took a diploma. At length, he wound up in Washington with the U. S. Engineers...
...Drink no alcohol at all. Use strychnine or coffee for stimulants. Cutting the wound and trying to suck out the venom is, he believes, useless...
...When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...