Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in Harrington Park, N.J., 78-year-old Charles Nessler died. Though he had frittered away most of his fortune on such inventions as a massaging machine to keep the skin young, Nessler left an impressive memorial: the billion-dollar-a-year U.S. beauty-parlor industry, which owes its existence to Nessler's permanent wave...
...Cried New York's Daniel Reed: "I think the President has gone hysterical." Some recalled the observation of North Carolina's Congressman "Muley" Doughton, when President Roosevelt in 1943 proposed a $10.5 billion increase in wartime taxes: "You can shear a sheep once a year; you can skin him only once...
Other Congressmen figured that the U.S. could still grow a lot of wool, even though there would be some bleats, and that it was better for the U.S. even to lose some skin than to lose its head...
...avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat she had tattooed prisoners killed so she could have lampshades made of their skinhad been dropped for lack of proof. Ilse, throwing another hysterical fit in her cell, was not in the courtroom to hear her sentence: life imprisonment...
Last week in Cleveland he reported startling results. On the theory that insufficient nerve power prevented the adult frog from growing new legs, Dr. Singer had cut the big sciatic nerves out of the hind legs of 21 amputee frogs, folded them back under the skin, and connected them to the stumps of the frogs' amputated front legs. In 20 of the frogs a new foreleg began to grow within three weeks. They were not very good legs. Nevertheless, they were legs...