The armless boy was plucked out of his plundered hospital and sent to Britain for generous treatment and education.
LAST month Liu Wei, an armless pianist and singer, won the first series of "China's Got Talent".
Cambodian and Thai soldiers, acting for well-organised rings, have hacked at much of it leaving pedestals empty, walls with holes and, in some cases, headless and armless torsos.Unfortunately, as a star statue in Berlin shows, possessions of the National Museum in Phnom Penh were not always safe, either.
Psalteries are members of the zither family, instruments having strings extended across an armless, neckless frame or holder; non-Western psalteries are thus sometimes referred to as zithers.
A simple open wickerwork, armless basket chair with a round seat a type still produced probably represents a historic shape; but more complex and specialized forms evolved in the 19th century with the increasing demand for lounge chairs and with the closer contacts that were being established with Asian countries.
Stool, armless and backless seat for one person.
The Unknown (1927), another circus tale, starred Chaney as an "armless" knife thrower who plots grisly revenge against a romantic rival.
Wickware, the "Living Phantom"; a variety of individuals with dwarfism; the "Albino Family"; African Americans with vitiligo; the "armless wonder" S.K.G.
Other well-known Chaney roles that helped earn him the nickname "Man of a Thousand Faces" included the dual role of police inspector and vampire in London After Midnight (1927; now lost); a Chinese Mandarin in Mr. Wu (1927); an armless knife thrower in The Unknown (1927); and a clown in Laugh Clown Laugh (1928).
It was therapy that helped Paterson release those emotions, but by then he had already defied expectations, both of an armless terror victim and of a school drop-out who saw himself as a failure, by turning to academia.
Charles V is depicted armless, just a bronze head stuck in a suit of armour, as was the 16th-century fashion.
