Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Horrified servants watched as the Papal barouche, careening, bouncing, made the circuit once and then crashed splintering into a heavy stone portico supporting the stairs down which His Holiness was expected momentarily to descend. Blood spattered and gushed to form a thick, sluggish pool upon the flagstones. One of the Irish horses had been gashed and killed in the clattering impact. The barouche was thoroughly wrecked...
...makers of fungicides, insecticides, deodorants and disinfectants. When alcohol in eau de Cologne is applied to an aching head, the alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body and cools the fevered brow. When alcohol in a liniment is rubbed into the skin it dilates the blood vessels and relieves the twinges of lumbago, neuritis, "muscular rheumatism." Anhydrous alcohol (alcohol with all but 0.1% of its water removed) makes gasoline more potent, but at present gasoline is cheaper than alcohol and industrial alcohol is not much used for motor fuel in this country. In Germany, however (where cheap...
...Bronx, N. Y., one Morris Goldstein, out-of-work, despondent, slashed his throat, began dictating his will to a policeman, changed his mind halfway through, offered $1,000 for a blood transfusion to save his life, was reported improving...
...meeting in Washington last week. She, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 57, medium-sized and dark, is the only woman member of the Academy. Her membership went to her about five years ago after 22 years' work at Johns Hopkins (where she was a professor) for her research on blood cells, blood vessels and the lymphatic system, (histology). Now she is a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, going deeply into the causes of tuberculosis. That is what she discoursed on to the Academicians last week...
...work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato. His middle-class parents gave him Spanish and Aztec blood. It is only the Aztec heritage that he prizes in himself and in his country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like most young artists he looked first to the Old World. He lived...