Word: gutting
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...marry on Thanksgiving Day. But last week Otto Van Derck spent what was to have been his wedding day in jail. He had confessed to aiding and abetting two of his B customers in a $54,000 swindle. His confession cracked in time's nick a dazzling plot to gut a life insurance company with $70,000,000 of policies in force...
...Pacific Southwest Tournament. Made not from catgut (sheep intestine) with which tennis racquets are commonly strung, Sinu is made from calf's tendon. Developed by Charles T. (''Tommy") Davis and Dr. George Aaron Sharp in Brooklyn, it has long been used as a substitute for gut in surgical sutures. It is manufactured like a textile. The gristly tendon is "exploded" into a tuft of fluffy white material like cotton, but much tougher. After being cleaned, carded, twisted into cord, chemically treated, stretched and dried, the result looks almost exactly like catgut...
Retired in middle-age to the sunshine of Beverly Hills, Calif., Davis and Sharp tried stringing their racquets with Sinu. To their great joy they found the sinu racquet much livelier than gut; found that soaking it in a bucket of water did it no hurt. They have built a factory in California, will have Sinu on the market in January...
...fashion elsewhere, partly because famed Norman Brookes, who became head of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association after he retired from active tournament competition, continued to prefer them. Australia's Adrian Quist and Donald Turnbull used the same kind. Unlike U. S. players who have their bats strung, with gut so fine that it never lasts more than one day, often less than a set, Champion Crawford uses "any kind" of gut, thick, durable and oldfashioned, has his racquets restrung as many times...
...High Table only a year since. The President was a guest, and his entrance aroused in the dining hall a hush,--no, never a stare . . . in Lowell House. But soon there was amusement, a litter, and as the President came abreast James Russell Lowell's portrait, a hearty, Teutonic, gut-wrenching laugh exploded. The President heard, turned, and pointed calmly toward the door; Phantom stopped, turned, made gravely for the door, an obedient...