Word: scalped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fenimore Coopers noble savage, in Mohawk dress) with authentic Plains Indians (TIME, June 7), presented with authentic American showmanship. For an English tour of his 600-odd paintings, Artist Catlin used genuine Indians, who gave point to his lectures by posing in tableaux, wowed the early Victorians with their scalp-tingling war whoops...
Reporting what he called a "hair-raising phenomenon" to the British Medical Journal, Dr. Kelvin simply passed on one ex-baldhead's "feasible suggestion that the hirsutic embellishment is due to the tablets' improving the circulation of the scalp by their vasodilating [artery-widening] action." He offered no theory of his own. Instead, he added lamely: "I confess that I have not yet personally tried the tablets to cure my own baldness...
Crea in the Breast, she instantly fell and Expired, her hair Was long and flowing, the same chief grasped it in his hand. Seized his knife and took off the scalp in such a manner as to include nearly the whole of the hair-then springing from the ground, he tosed it in the face of a young wariorur. who stood near him watching the operation...
...Havana, white-bearded Author Ernest Hemingway strode into the public eye with his head cropped bald (so that scalp wounds he picked up in his famed African plane crash will heal more quickly), was officially decorated on his 55th birthday with the Order of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes-the highest honor Cuba can bestow upon a foreigner. Later Papa displayed the decoration for wife Mary and friend Jaime Bofill, launched on his 56th year in a warm and sentimental glow...
...great intelligence." "Writing Is Funny." Kirchner was a man of considerable ability himself by 1947, and he began turning out his share of compositions. One of the most imposing to date: his first String Quartet, a Bartok-ian piece with a now-gritty, now-smooth character, scalp-tingling dissonances, and immense technical facility...