Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paassen lived for a time, he stopped to chat with a gravedigger, said he was on his way to Paris to write political notes on Laval. From the bottom of a slimy pit, tossing up half-rotten skulls to make room for a new corpse, the gravedigger shook his head and said: "A dirty job, la politique, Monsieur Pierre, a very foul business...
...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...
...thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone peg had been completely absorbed and replaced by the human bone...
Last week Professor Thurlow Christian Nelson, head of Rutgers University's zoology department, bluntly told New York and New Jersey health officials that the Greater New York area "has probably the highest incidence of trichinosis in hogs and in humans to be found anywhere in the world." Next in rank are Boston and San Francisco. Many of the cases are caused by consumption of improperly cooked frankfurters and hamburgers which are made of mixed pork and beef, said Dr. Nelson. "The average 'hot dog,' " he explained, "is barely warmed through before being slapped into its mustard bath...
Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name...