Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass...
...last fortnight, the conductor and passengers of the westbound train from Irkutsk to Moscow gaped in astonishment at the queer old gentleman who sat with a mouldy, grinning skull in his lap. But Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka smiled benignly back. For he had just been presented with the most precious skull of his career, and he was literally not going to let it out of his clutches...
...Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...
...JOURNEY ROUND MY SKULL-Harper...
...poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...