Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are a dozen tales in the collection and the reader's hair slowly rises until absolutely perpendicular to the scalp. Those whose hair naturally bristles six of the stories it will brush and lie flat in the meekest fashion imaginable...
There are approximately 100,000 hairs in the normal scalp...
...Indian stalked into the Nemenway Gymnasium with the confidence bred by one triumph over Harvard and sundry other victories over its Intercollegiate League rivals. he sent his second-string warriors after the Crimson scalp, but the supposed victim was in no mood to stand the red skins outrages, and with the battle half over the invaders called for help. The proud Hanover chieftan summoned his strongest front, but to no purpose. The second half was as much of a rout as the first...
...their minds to make this function rather more stirring than such meetings usually prove. They have organized a stockholders' protective committee, and are out to obtain proxies for a majority of the 155,000 outstanding shares; already they have proxies for 65,000. They propose to have the scalp of H. T. Blodgett, President of the Company, and to effect several reforms, in their opinion demanded by the business...
Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family...