Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prisoners, dodging around the landscaped grounds, tried to skin under the double rows of high barbed-wire fences. Finally, guards blazed away with submachine guns...
Handbags were discouraging. Even in the bigger stores, like Selfridge's, Harrod's or Debenham & Freebody's, purses were made of imitation leather with no linings (price: anywhere from $8 to $20). Definitely inferior pocketbooks could be found from $3. Leather or reptile skin purses were priced from $40 to $60, and even the selection was meager in the extreme...
...Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" is about as confusing in its parody as "The Skin of Our Teeth." Few theatregoers agree on the Wilder hodge-podge and there will be disagreement over the British-made United Artists film as well. On a few points there will be general accord: "Colonel Blimp" is long, technicolored, staid, and generally entertaining...
Sneers & Jeers. In 1889 Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, eminent French physiologist, announced at the age of 72 that he had succeeded in revitalizing himself by brewing the mashed-up sex glands of dogs and guinea pigs in a salt solution and injecting the mixture under his skin. An audience of distinguished French scientists listened spellbound to details of the miraculous transformation. But Sequard's new lease on life lasted just one month; then he began to wither. When he died in 1894, he and the potentialities of the male hormone were both badly discredited...
Treatment of a spinal patient begins with absolute rest for the back, usually in a plaster cast. Because the paralyzed legs are completely numb, patients commonly develop bed sores. The Newton D. Baker Hospital developed a quick cure: skin grafts. No less troublesome is the problem of getting patients to eat; the spinal injury destroys their appetite. The hospital spurs them on by serving especially tasty and attractive food...