Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneously a raging crowd of Fascists were paying no attention to the sex or age of his would-be assassin. As a policeman tried to drag her to safety, sharp fingernails clawed at her neck, her arms. The mob was on the point of ending her life by crunching slimy means...
Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
Died. Gerald Chapman (real name George Chartres), famed bandit-murderer, hung by the neck, in Hartford...
...That's good," Vera said, "tell him to scrub his dirty neck...
...cheek near an eye, an angry red spreads out into a wide, fiery stain. The skin tingles. It burns. When the stain reaches the spongy cheek or lip tissues, these swell into a horrible, puffy, burning mass. Sometimes the disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days...