Word: wound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white. The squat structures were nearly saturated with rich men, sportsmen, society men and their ladies, when out on the magic carpet the witch- ery which had drawn them from across the world began. Polo ponies, 115, led by bright-turbaned Indians and blue bloused U. S. grooms, wound slowly around the field...
...crowds, voices rough with cheering, rose from the robin's egg blue stands, and settled them selves in $40,000,000 worth of au- tomobiles. F. Ambrose Clark's tal ly-ho wound its horn and dashed away. Out over the magic carpet swarmed 51 brown men, armed with stomps. They mended the magic carpet, smoothing the hoof cuts of the ponies. Next week the magic carpet would be smooth and green again and the thousands gather for the series' second game...
...several hours before we could do anything for her (Anderson) but first aid. At Mazatlan we were met by Dr. Chapman and the American consular agents. Dr. Chapman pronounced the wound grave and her chances very slim. All this time Florence was brave and never lapsed into unconsciousness...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...Chapman retreated step by step to his bedroom, the peons making no demands but simply prodding him on. There the man with the revolver suddenly fired at point blank range, sending a bullet into Mr. Chapman's left breast which fortunately passed cleanly through, not leaving a mortal wound. An instant later both peons dashed from the house...