Word: kneecapping
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June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
After examining one particularly bloody case Dr. Beck said, "There is a delicate one. Looks like he got a hand grenade between his legs but I think we can save one testicle." A marine was set down with a shattered kneecap. "Sure, he'll be as good as new," said the doctor, when someone asked if the marine would walk normally. Then came a man who was shot through the thigh, another who had at least five wounds around his chest, neck and right arm, another with a chest wound to whom the doctor said, "What...
...Herbert Lehman, although still on crutches with a fractured kneecap he got in Africa last March, was getting about, visited the White House to discuss UNRRA with the President...
Herbert Lehman, Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation, was briefly hospitalized in Algiers after fracturing his kneecap in a fall...
Last week Joe Ball, still limping from a fractured kneecap that he got in an automobile accident while driving home after the Democratic National Convention, prepared to take his first steps as Senator-appointee. He prepared a radio speech urging 1) aid to Britain (with the Army and Navy to be the best judges of "how much and what sort of aid we can extend with safety"), 2) the election of Wendell Willkie. Because his 35th birthday comes next month he would register for the draft, as would Governor Stassen (33) and Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson (28), then leave...