Word: mastoid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good practical engineer, a good practical politician with the Sanitary District. His first wife died in 1918. Four years later he married a woman 15 years his junior. In 1925 his 14-year-old son, an only child, died after a mastoid operation at Culver Military Academy, whereupon the Kellys adopted three youngsters. For summers they bought a big, airy place on a lake near Eagle River, Wis., spent their winters in a remodeled colonial brick home on Ellis Avenue. In 1922 Ed Kelly, in addition to his job as the Sanitary...
...devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...
...Harry Payne Whitney, convalescing last week from a painful mastoid operation, got a medal in her morning's mail from the American Art Dealers Association "for conspicuous service to art in America." At the same time Mrs. Whitney's most obvious service, the pink and imposing Whitney Museum of American Art. did last week the sort of thing for which it was established. In conjunction with an amusing showing of the works of provincial U. S. painters of the early 19th Century, the museum had a memorial exhibition of the work of the greatest cartoonist the country has produced: Thomas...
Telephones rang in the sanatoria and hospitals of Tucson, Ariz, last week. St. Mary's Hospital was calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...
There was an epidemic of sinus trouble at Princeton last year. Almost all veteran water poloists have had their eardrums punctured at some time. Occasionally the eardrum fails to heal quickly and pus runs out of it. Mastoid may result. Suggested objectors: the Intercollegiate Swimming Association refused to alter its rule about the Old American Game because oldtime officials of the Association like to play it themselves in the New York Athletic Club, would hate to see it become outmoded...