Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white wig. His green stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a pompon, leered dreadfully into the black polished depths of a cheval-glass. Beside him lay an overturned stool. A rope, strung through pulleys, connected his neck with the ceiling...
Incredible feet, swollen knees, a body like a fat egg, a bent neck, tufted cranium, misty eyes very high and close together and a heavy spatulate appendage, blotched and yellow, more like a piece of foot gear than a nose-that was balaeniceps rex, the shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo...
...Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles of my arms were swollen. I ate some potatoes roasted upon cinders and threw myself in all my clothes on to my bed: a pile of straw. At five on the Tuesday I woke and returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage of the powerless. The padrone made me mad. The third...
...lieutenant, Jack Rubenstein, celebrated by getting out of the Garfield (N. J.) jail with a battered face, swollen right eye, bruised back and broken leg. "He didn't get them here," said Chief of Police Forss. It was Rubenstein's tenth arrest as a result of his strike activities...
With eyes swollen and tongue faltering, the judge read out their sentences: each to be imprisoned for four years, each to pay a 10,000,000 kronen ($14,000) fine, each to be "ineligible to hold public office for three years...