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...Wistar Institute and Isaac wanted to see it properly housed. When he died in 1905 he had given the Institute $1,000,000, as well as his brain, his crippled right forearm and hand, including the fingernails ("a desirable specimen of gunshot ankylosis"), his bloody Civil War sword which he preferred never to have cleaned, and several other relics including his baby caps and snuffboxes...
...into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company of a guard. After 'Ennry had hobbled back with the guard blind drunk behind him, the guard was changed...
...Like Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which broke Japanese barriers erected in captured sectors of the Chapei slums, carried Chinese screaming with triumph into mastery of numerous crooked alleyways and shattered streets. Japanese and Chinese machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders...
Consequently, state and federal courts have been very reluctant to upset declarations of martial law by state governors Judges, wisely recognize that the particular decisions about emergencies must usually be left to the Executive who wields the sword, without any control or advice from sedentary scholars on the benches...
...hand-to-hand conflict. At the end of the affray, some of the Chinese had taken flight, while the remaining one hundred Chinese were lying slain upon the ground. The dispatch added that the leader of the valorous band of eleven had suffered a sligh cut from a Chinese sword, which was the sum total of the Nipponese injuries...