Word: plexus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fisticuffer Steve Hamas called at the Berlin home of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, chatted "for hours," chiefly about boxing, Prince Wilhelm's hobby. Suddenly the Prince jumped up. He rolled up his sleeves to show his muscles, then pointed to his solar plexus. "Punch me there," cried he. Fisticuffer Hamas punched. Prince Wilhelm smiled, sat down. "It was my hardest punch, too," said Fisticuffer Hamas, "and right in the belly...
...describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
...torso to expose the viscera. Next he carefully cut practically every sympathetic nerve in the cat's body. Particularly, he cut the nerves running to the heart and every organ known to produce a hormone - the thyroids, parathyroids, thymus, duodenum, liver, pancreas, adrenals, pineal gland, pituitary body, chorioid plexus and sexual organs...
Flying Clinic. Latin Americans have a helpless detestation and envy of U. S. dominance of their aviation. On the other hand they have full trust and frank good-will for U. S. medicine. The conflicting emotions griped many a Latin American solar plexus last week, as two plane loads of U. S. physicians and surgeons hopped, skipped and jumped through eleven countries, holding hasty clinics at pauses. On the whole, local practitioners who could not attend the Pan-American medical congress meeting at Panama City, R. P., were grateful for this U. S. aerial intrusion...