Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near full strength when the Indians, who have also failed to win a game this season, hit Cambridge. Correll Lowenstein took part in yesterday's contact workout and is all set to go; Jerry Kanter, first string offensive left guard, was kicked in the hip bone in the Army game and did not scrimmage. Both he and Duke Sedgwick, offensive tackle, are expected to be ready later in the week. The latter was also limited to non-contact exercise yesterday...
Gilbert and Sullivan found the location of a funny-bone which was not an exclusive feature of the English Victorian physique. Their works have three levels: the actual setting, be it the Cornish coast or the imperial court of Japan; the institutions of Victorian England which are being lampooned; and some indefinable sense of humor which the English-speaking world has maintained for at least 75 years. For those who are not lacking in this last ingredient, an evening at the Opera House is definitely in order...
...doctors who never tire of arguing about the age and origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
Bernard Shaw, convalescing nicely from his broken left thigh bone, had, as usual, plenty of other things to complain about. Once a doctor heard him shriek "Stop her," rushed in to find the white bearded playwright on his stomach with a nurse rubbing oil into his skin. "But Mr. Shaw," the doctor said, "she's only doing that to keep you from getting bed sores. It's nothing at all." "Nothing at all?" howled Shaw. "Who's bottom is she playing with anyway...
...give in before your head does, and you are always stumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week quite regularly . . ." Fortnight ago, while walking in the garden of his home at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, the 94-year-old playwright fell and broke his left thigh bone. Carted off to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered to his face. Next day, in his cream-and-green private room, with his fractured femur...