Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said he: "I don't see what else I could have done." Mary Butterfield, who had not tried...
Russell Morrison Evans, Jr., 15, coasting down a Pittsburgh hill, saw that he was about to slide into a pole. He threw himself from the sled, crashed into another pole. Something seemed to break within his abdomen. At Homeopathic Medical & Surgical Hospital where his doctor father took him, x-rays showed that he had ruptured his spleen...
When Dr. Fred Simon Morris, colleague of Dr. Evans, opened the boy's abdomen, it was a cistern of blood. Had there been anyone handy with blood suitable for transfusion the blood in Junior Evans' abdomen could have been sponged up, thrown away. With no suitable donor ready, autotransfusion was essential...
Among this year's dead 40 were Joseph I. Johnson, 13, of Lafayette, Ind., who shot himself in the abdomen because he could not "make" his grade school team. Another fatality was Coach Ray Pardue. 24, of Statesville, N. C. High School team, cuffed to death by Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius...
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...