Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkened room at the University of Jena, Germany, Professor Hans Berger felt the forehead of his assistant carefully. Finding a proper spot, he punctured the skin, shoved a small silver needle through the interstices of the skull until the tip rested against the outer covering of the cerebral cortex. In the back of the head, he inserted a similar needle, attached a galvanometer to both. Then he stroked the assistant's arm with a glass rod, gave him arithmetic problems to solve...
...great and good man, a bishop and a martyr, St. Januarius is not the Patron Saint of Earthquakes, but of Naples. Tortured and beheaded by the Emperor Diocletian, his skull and two phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
Disagreeing radically with the seismologists, Naples' dour Cardinal Ascalesi, guardian of St. Januarius' skull, insisted that the real cause of the earthquake was the indecent dresses of Neapolitan women...
Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
...Chicago, Edward M. Johnson, broker. War aviator, stayed home to care for his five-month-old daughter. He drank some beer, then wine, then alcohol-&-ice-water, heard the child crying, picked her up, staggered, fell on her, picked her up again, dropped her. She died (fractured skull...