Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep the little business going. One day he came in from rabbit-hunting with a wound in his foot. He had shot himself. An insurance company paid him $5,000 for the loss of a toe. Something told him where to put the money; not into the drug business, but into "mud sills," the big logs men were using then in Kansas to bolster their...
...mansion where bullets pinged and splintered, last week, was that of socially elect Mynheer and Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Servants rushed in to find him shot dead, and her unconscious from a bullet wound in the head. A single revolver lay smoking on the floor...
...mossy, domed Cathedral at Esztergom-on-Danube wound a solemn, resplendent procession of robed prelates and civil functionaries heavy with chains of office...
...announcement that Harvard will this spring have the first officially recognized Freshman golf team of its history would have less meaning if it did not contain restrictions which wound the importance of golf in the minds of the athletic authorities. The checks upon the innovation-that the schedule will be limited to two games and that the Freshman team will play under the same adverse conditions which have in the past, confronted the University team-seem to be justified in the case of golf...
...column wound up a narrow valley and topped the rise it came plump upon an encampment of Sandinistas who had bivouacked at an abandoned ranch house, after taking the elementary precaution of planting a machine gun to command the valley. Despatches differed as to whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually...