Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pailthorpe-Mednikoff canvases were filled with these symbols. Some of them, such as safety pins, wheels and houses, were easily recognizable as childish carryovers. Others were less simple. Dr. Pailthorpe and Mr. Mednikoff were anxious to explain that this cockscomb meant that the little boy had killed his mother, and that that tree represented father chasing him around behind the house. Some of the symbols were obviously adult, obviously sexual...
...Gunther, Sheean; but for character vignettes and earthy episodes, he beats the lot. Examples: >The headmaster of his grammar school in Gorcum, Holland, was a tightlipped, frog-eyed, wrinkled Huguenot with the curling fingernails of a Chinese mandarin and the literal severity of a Spanish Inquisitor. He beat a boy to unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly gray heavenly roof." Heaven, it seemed, was never pitiless. After morning prayers he took snuff, which made him sneeze so vehemently that he staggered. This staggering, says the author, was the only physical exercise he ever took. > In Bourg...
...harbor of Honolulu looking for violators of the Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
Walrus tusks. In 1922 Dr. Groves examined a farm boy with a deep cavity in the upper end of his thighbone. No scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability...
Soupbone. A ten-year-old boy with an infected humerus (upper-arm bone) broke his arm while throwing a cricket ball. Dr. Groves cut and shaped two pieces of beef-bone, scraped out some marrow in each end of the boy's broken humerus, drove one piece of beef-bone up the humerus, the other down, and joined them together with metal bolts. The boy recovered in six weeks and within ten years the beef-bone was almost entirely absorbed in new bone tissue which had grown around it. The metal bolts remained embedded in the bone...