Word: abdomen
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...answer. Sometimes the inquisitor gets angry before he discovers his mistake. The other bobby is less lifelike. A visitor goes up to him, winks to show that he is not taken in and, with much self-assurance, just to show how certain he is, prods him in the abdomen. "Move on there, move on, please," booms the bobby without a smile, while the prodder writhes in the last agonies of a pricked balloon...
...must to all men, Death came to Friedrich Ebert, first President of the German Republic. He was in the 55th year of his life. His malady was peritonitis (acute inflammation of the membraneous lining of the abdomen), caused by appendicitis. Death came unexpectedly in a sanitarium after a few days of illness (TIME...
...Manhattan, Joseph Stecher, one-time heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, lay for some time in a warm but uncomfortable posture beneath the body of Wladek Zbyszko, powerful Pole. Grunting, he wriggled out, looped his legs around the abdomen of Zbyszko, pressed until the latter, in agony, permitted his mountainous shoulders to touch the mat. The bout lasted...
...herself in for his strong-man love. He does not recover until there has been displayed a good deal of vamping, counter-vamping, and ancient details of the Hollywood "sugar-papa" system. The scenario was lifted from the quivering pages of E. Phillips Oppenheim, but Charles Post's abdomen and eyebrows are as depressing as ever...
...twins", born in Brooklyn, had been cut asunder so successfully that, though one died, the other would live to be a healthy man. Both infants were alleged to be perfectly formed, save that the deceased one had, instead of a right leg, a shapeless growth connecting him to the abdomen of his brother. Surgeons were said to have "hurried from all parts of the country" to see the "unprecedented result" of Dr. Philip Mininberg's plastic surgery...