Word: gunshot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They include diaries of his experiences with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France; with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary Forces. They tell of his interest in gunshot wounds of the head (''g.s.w. skull"), a military accident with which he as a brain surgeon was particularly concerned. Eight brain opera tions a day was his goal...
Died. William Adger Law, 71, president of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.; of a gunshot wound; in Greensboro...
...Simon Baruch (1840-1921), German-born Jew of Spanish ancestry, graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, was an assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. While in a Federal war prison he wrote a book on gunshot wounds. Excited by the hydrotherapeutic cures of Vienna's Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Dr. Baruch dived into the subject, wrote two text books, got the first U. S. municipal bath houses established in Manhattan in 1901, was hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled...
...libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen is innocent, she, Martha, has not been entirely guiltless in intent. She goes to her room. There is a gunshot. In one of the soundest bits of acting seen this season, Actress Emery lets a full half-minute pass before she reacts to the report...
Died. Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...