Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile big-eyed mop-haired Joe Zangara sat in his high Miami cell rubbing his aching stomach and repeating: "If I could eat, I no kill anybody." He appeared without remorse, explaining that his animosity ran against Mr. Roosevelt only as President-elect, not as an individual. Police investigation revealed the following case history...
Walter Winchell, New York Mirror colyumist, had just filed his "On Broadway" from the Miami Western Union office when a messenger dashed in with the news from the park. Winchell sprinted straight to the jail where he talked his way up to the cell block and eavesdropped on the sheriff's examination of Zangara. He wired the Mirror that night that Zangara "gave every indication of being crazy...
...narrative concerns a young betting clerk who volunteers, in a moment of national crisis, to die in the name of "Anonymous Ireland." Put into a cell with the leader of the rebellion, he discovers that the leader is not a man, but a woman in disguise. The resulting complications destroy the happiness which he had found in the prospect of sacrifice; when he is released instead of being shot, readjustment is impossible, and leads him at the end of the book to a situation of deliberately chosen incongruity...
Prodigious Dr. Turck invented a theory of disease. Biochemistry has not accepted the Turck theory but finds it highly provocative. Dr. Turck found experimental evidence, and reported in scores of scientific papers, that the juice of every living cell contains a substance which he called cytost (cytos for cell, t for Turck). Each species of animal and plant has its own kind of cytost. Injury to the body liberates quantities of cytost into the blood stream. If the injury is severe-as in mangling, mayhem or scalding-the vast quantity of exuded cytost acts as a poison, causes shock...
...determine the precise nature of cytost. If a chemical, it is very stable, resisting heat (up to 300° C) and age (Sir Flinders Petrie reports that mummy dust contains an active poison). Dr. Turck thought cytost an enzyme or a hormone. In the Action of the Living Cell, he uttered the "earnest hope that other investigators will attempt to repeat and extend his observations." It was his scientific testament. While strolling Fifth Avenue last November he died of heart failure, aged 75. With him were his adoring wife and namesake...