Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This article has not been written because of outside pressure; it has been written because of the authors' conviction that the current complaints over Harvard football can hurt the wrong people. We are not after anybody's scalp. We intend no slur on the current Harvard team, which played through a gruelling schedule to the top of its abilities, but which was outmatched almost every week. We have no reservations about Arthur Valpey, who probably is not perfect but who is certainly a very fine coach. We advocate neither installing athletic scholarships nor giving up football...
...tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
Furrowed Brow. In St. Louis, one week after a tavern brawl, Weslie Brent developed a headache, saw a doctor who found a .32 slug lodged between his scalp and skull...
...course of treatments. He does not claim success in every case; he promises to refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look at his customers' heads...
Heady Draught. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed the labels on two prescriptions, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...