Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Seattle they took a steamer to Nome. There they bought prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...
...noble-charactered country lad at large in the big city, with a reasonable persuasiveness. But he has had this same part for so long that it is getting to be a little on the tiring side. Hedy Lamarr lets the cameraman accentuate the contrast between the whiteness of her skin and darkness of her eyes and hair, and tries to hide the fact that her figure is not what the simmer in her eyes would lead us to believe. But she does no acting, says nothing funny, and in general handles a highly insipid part in a highly insipid fashion...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
...quite unable to decide whether tattooed skin could be grafted, and, if so, what would happen. Suppose I transferred some of Mary to the mastoid, would it have any influence on the man's mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...
...surgeon finally decided to take a number of small pieces of skin from between the lines of the tattooing, leaving the designs intact. In this way, he got enough for a satisfactory skin patch behind...