Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
...with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
...teeth left. His nose has been broken ten times. In one fracas with the Maroons six years ago he got his nose, jaw and four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most of it gloomily in Bermuda, praying in his own fashion for "Ace" to live...
Died. Herbert Mundin, 40, British cinema comedian (Cavalcade, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Robin Hood); of a fractured skull received in an automobile accident; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Five years later Papa Haydn was dead and his head was off-stolen from his grave by ardent phrenologists. When the loss was discovered and the culprits pressed for its return, they surrendered a skull which passed for Haydn's. But it was not. Like a historic football, the real article was kicked around Austria for 75 years until it landed in a glass case in the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access...