Word: kneecapping
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...result of his wound, he still wears an aluminum kneecap, grafted bonebits here and there, as well as a score of body scars. (A deep scar on his forehead is not war-gotten, but the mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established...
John Rockefeller Prentice, 34, bachelor Chicago lawyer and grandson of the late John Davison Rockefeller, met Trained Nurse Margaret Montgomery, 27, at Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital when he broke his kneecap in an automobile accident last September. They became ''very dear friends" until recently, when he told her he could see her no oftener than once a week. Late one night last week Nurse Montgomery called him, told him that she had been kidnapped, begged him to come to her in a South Side restaurant. Skeptical, Mr. Prentice called Margaret Montgomery's roommate, who immediately notified...
...Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next to the skeleton of a dwarf once named Caroline Crachami, who does not reach up to his kneecap...
...Majesty's Government's real-life Sherlock Holmes, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, just sensationally foiled in Brighton Trunk Murders No. 1 and No. 2 (TIME, March 4), last week had on his laboratory table two human legs, neatly cut off below the kneecap. They were found last week under the seat of a train arriving at Waterloo Station...
...south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...