Word: pincushions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
...badly smashed leg, amputation used to be the regular thing. But Chicago's Surgeon John F. Pick reported that during World War II "an extraordinary number of legs were saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...
...collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion...
Manhattan had seen him first (TIME, Oct. 27). One look at his pincushion shape, outsize ears, spriggy elephant trunk, wistful bemused expression, and 350,000 New Yorkers (to date) took him to their cosmopolitan bosoms...
Last week Winston Churchill revealed one of his post-war aims. Answering a question in Parliament (whose meeting-place is now secret), he told how he expected to restore that Victorian-Gothic pincushion, the House of Commons, whose interior was gutted by seven Nazi bombs (TIME, May 19). Declared the Prime Minister: "I cannot conceive that anyone would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments for accommodation in the galleries, not affecting the size, shape and character of the building...