Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When captured, Youth Melgar (who by this time also had a broken arm and a fractured skull in addition to his neck wound; said: "My action was entirely personal." The police, according to Lima newsgatherers, were at first determined to lynch Youth Melgar, desisted only under stern orders from their superiors...
Like bacteria in water, myriads of thoughts and memories swarm unnoticed in the drop of intelligence under every man's skull. Unlike bacteria, however, they are brought to a man's attention less by microscopic examination than by some serious shock to the tenor of his ways. Then the myriads of thoughts & memories rush helter-skelter every which way: they have strange encounters, make strange marriages. If they absorb too much of the man's attention...
...dyeing furs, purifying gold, etching metals. As an antiseptic it is useful but dangerous. Hence the Pharmacopoeia commands that tablets of bichloride of mercury intended for antiseptic use be "of an angular shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing the word 'POISON'. . . ." No other drug in the entire Pharmacopoeia need be colored or shaped...
Died. Johanna Gadski, 59, famed Wagnerian soprano, of a fractured skull received in an automobile crash; in Berlin. German-born, she was brought to the J. S. by Walter Damrosch in 1895 and, though young and inexperienced, was acclaimed by Manhattan. In recent years she toured the U. S. with the German Grand Opera Company, a mediocre organization which her rich young idolizer Geraldine Hall Bangs, Manhattan socialite, subsidized so that Gadski could go on singing in opera. Mrs. Bangs was driving the car which crashed last week with a Berlin trolley. She and Captain Hans Tauscher, Gadski...
...Frankenstein's monster is the most nearly terrifying. More subtle than Mr. Hyde of the staring eyes and grinning teeth, is this monster whom a mad scientist has pieced together out of the parts of corpses. He comes out of the dark a giant, stumbling, inarticulate shape, with square skull, inhuman eyelids, and the filmed eyes of one too long dead. You may see the raised suture at the wrists, where the mismatched hands are grafted to the arms...