Word: dunlap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
After her operation, Dema Dunlap suffered few epileptic attacks, but more headaches. A week ago her head seemed ready to burst. Fingering her right temple seemed to help. The harder she pressed the better her head felt. An idea developed in her dulled wits. The young woman found a 4-in. spike, 316 in. in diameter. The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole. It hurt a little, but it made her feel better. Reaching her left hand over her head, she held the spike in position and with her right fist pounded...
...news came when she forbade students to hitchhike to Yonkers for the afternoon for fear that they might be kidnapped. That provoked a memorable controversy between President Warren and the Mayor of Yonkers. To replace Board Chairman MacCracken, Sarah Lawrence last week elected Dr. Elliott Dunlap Smith, master of Yale's Saybrook College. Elected a trustee was one of Sarah Lawrence's own alumnae: Mrs. John Appleton Clark of Manhattan, Class of 1932, aged...
...Bell '04 5,000.00 Allston Rurr '89 50,000.00 Godfrey L. Cabot '82 10,050.00 William Richard Castle '00 5,000.00 T. Jefferson Coolidge '15 5,000.00 Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge Sr. 5,050.84 Dwight F. Davis '00 5,000.00 Carl A. de Gersderff '97 5,000.00 Charles E. Dunlap '11 15,000.00 Robert L. Gerry '00 5,000.00 Robert F. Herrick '90 25,000.00 William M. Kendall '76 5,000.00 Joseph P. Kennedy '12 25,000.00 Thayer Lindsley '04 35,000.00 Francis M. Weld '97 5,237.30 George Whitney '07 25,000.00 Mrs. Clarence C. Williams, in memory...
...recently was floored by Dancer George White, cut short his band music, stepped out onto a Toronto dance floor, strode up to a dancer whom he suspected as the bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...