Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight. Convict knives flashed. From the watch towers ten or twelve rifle bullets whistled into the melee. When it ended, one guard and one convict lay dead, six others lay unconscious in the yard. Another convict soon died of his wounds, and last week, after six blood transfusions, Warden Larkin died of his infected stab wounds. As the five surviving convicts were being indicted for murder other big prisons had their own troubles...
...World War the Dictators who were going to meet last week each fought with the rank of corporal on opposing sides. Their first and only previous meeting was when Der Führer flew to Venice (TIME, June 25, 1934). Sixteen days after that Adolf Hitler staged his Nazi "Blood Purge" in which many Germans were killed. Twenty-five days later Nazi agents in Vienna assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and II Duce, believing Der Führer was about to seize Austria, mobilized the Italian Army on the Austrian frontier, rang up Adolf Hitler by long distance phone...
...Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When a "monkey" beat up a "lion," Maine's Barrows observed dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate...
...years he grubbed in libraries and museums for reports of curious phenomena which science could not explain, made bales of notes from which he compiled chaotic books such as Wild Talents, The Book of the Damned, Lo! New Lands. Charles Fort demanded that science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared in Central Park after the celebrated Dorothy Arnold mysteriously disappeared? What about the Chippewa Indian who prayed for food for his child, promptly drew milk from his breast...
...demonstration by Dr. J. G. Dillon that not only the human lungs but the bowels breathe. Dr. Dillon, a U. S. emigre practicing in Moscow, explained: "Air which has found access into the stomach and then into the intestines can be sucked into the blood. Especially it is true about oxygen which can dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs...