Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin of the girl's cheek, from the upper incision...
...state, and his holy wrath is fanned by unholy jealousy. He dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...
...matter of the Russian Ballet (TIME, Music, April i) dark-skinned Toumanova does not own "Mickey" the marmoset, rather the fair Irina Baronova. . . . "Mickey" recently had a near escape from drowning when his exploratory yearnings led him to a toilet fixture into which he plunged, was rescued in the nick of time. "Mickey" was presented to Baronova by Arnold Haskell, author of Ballctomania...
...hand Franconia's famed Jew-baiting Boss Nazi, Dr. Julius Streicher, decided that somebody had made a mistake. Though he has shrieked "Death to Jews!" from a thousand hustings, Nazi Streicher abruptly blamed everything on a subordinate official of his Brown House and manifestoed in time's nick: "Irresponsible elements have been spreading rumors that Jews had attempted to assassinate our Leader. In the ensuing excitement they demanded that Jews be punished by being beaten to death. In Franconia I alone issue orders. I have ordered the expulsion of one district leader as a disciplinary measure. I will...
...issue is clear cut. To cleave to hallowed precedent or to suffer Harvard tradition to fall deplorably and dishonorably in the dust. With what nick-name, term, or epithet shall we refer to the cheerful Amazons who sweep our floors and make our beds? Shall we say "goody" or "biddy...