Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Marvin Alvey came to his senses slowly. He sat up, dizzily, discovered that his face was caked with blood, and that his left ankle was broken and swollen. He was cold. The wall of a mountain canyon rose above him, and a red airplane lay smashed on the rocks beside him. He began to remember what had happened...
Nevertheless, the agency racked up an impressive financial record last year. From blood donations alone (one of the subdivisions of the bureau), students pulled down a cool $20,000 and when you add in the income from such things as apply picking, dog walking, and sailing instructions, the total gross well into six figures. Nobody knows the exact amount, for students are shy about telling Holt just how much they ears. Income tax again...
Various drugs (mostly those which constrict the blood vessels) might help even serious cases. But when the victim tries to breathe the drugs into his lungs as fine mist through a "nebulizer," they do not penetrate deep enough. Struggle as he will, the stiffened sacs remain full of stale air and of carbon dioxide from the blood...
...Seattle Times, which turns sideswipe into sidewipe, nothing is ever unique. The Times also dislikes the mere mention of blood "except in the cases of transfusions and hounds." And in the Scripps-Howard papers, among others, robbers are never bandits. Roy Howard says that bandits are found only in Mexico, and that they all died out with Pancho Villa anyway...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...