Word: scalpeled
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...show his white cuffs. He made no attempt to clean his hands as we do today but used just enough water from an old basin to lubricate them. There was no anesthesia. The physiology table used for animal demonstrations was his operating table. Mott would put the scalpel in his mouth and possibly several strands of waxed silk or linen. His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean. The instruments he used were...
Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very interesting corpse dropped in the other...
...well as press the pants. Stealing a Russian tank, she leads Gable and half the Red horde in a Balkan invasion as part of one of the funniest reels in film history. The picture as a whole, however, is not quite so hotchka as "Ninotcha." Where Garbo used a scalpel in her satirical analysis, Gable uses a sledge hammer. Despite its heavy-handed anti-Marxisms, though, "Comrade X" is topnotch comedy...
...final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many of Winchell's some 10,000,000 column readers as might relish dignified, cruel...
...They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...