Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among 28 paupers in the Wetzel County, W. Va. Infirmary at New Martinsville were Alex Wilson, 75, and Nicholas Barcus, 74, friends since boyhood. Last week Nick was dead of a fractured skull and Alex in jail, charged with murder. Said Alex Wilson: "Nick and me, we never had any trouble. ... It was all over a little argument about Nick locking the door. He came up with a cane and said whoever said he locked the door was a liar. And I shouted back to him that he did lock it. Then he swung his cane...
...Elmsford tavern, split a dozen cans of beer. Near 1 a.m. they were rolling homeward, Frederick Rupt favoring his wooden right leg. They fell afighting and when Frederick Rupt clumped away, John Doyle was lying by the road. Somebody's fist, said a doctor, had fractured his skull, killed him. Frederick Rupt was jailed for manslaughter...
...year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night...
...Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college...
Title. The title of Finnegans Wake comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...