Word: slabbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four finger tips had been scarred by file and acid. But by prints of the unscarred fingers police quickly assured themselves that the round, blank face, now horribly contorted, was that of "Baby Face" Nelson. In Cook County's morgue his body was stretched on the same rubber slab which had held John Dillinger just 130 days before. Newsreels touched a gruesome low by displaying the corpse uncovered to show all nine wounds...
...Saturday the courtroom was jammed. The judge asked: "Do you still refuse to answer?" Newsmen Durham & Carty got back to jail just in time for supper (a slab of sausage, three slices of bread, a biscuit soaked in molasses...
They took all that was left of the most notorious killer and robber of 1934 to the Chicago morgue. There they laid his naked corpse out on a rubber slab and the Hearstpapers also laid him out in gruesome front-page newspictures.* In Washington Attorney General Cummings heaved a mighty sigh of relief...
...century behind the times, a few steady-fingered men and women of good family have gone on painting miniatures, with the result that last week the American Society of Miniature Painters was able to hold its 35th exhibition in Manhattan. Months ago each artist bought little slabs of ivory, preferably from tusks of a live elephant. The ivory was smoothed with pumice stone, soaked in water until pliable. When pressed stiff and flat each slab was cut for size. Omitting the gum, glycerine or honey the ancients used to make paint stick to chicken skin, mutton bone, vellum or copper...
Bell. Cold on a morgue slab in Durchholzen, Austria last week lay the body of Dr. George Bell. In the early days of Nazism, Dr. Bell was, with the notorious Count de Moulin Eckhardt, one of the intimates of the perverted Storm Troop Leader Capt. Ernst Roehm (TIME, March 20). While still in Nazi good graces he went to London" called according to rumor by Sir Henri Deterding who was currying favor with Adolf Hitler in the hope of winning oil contracts for Royal Dutch-Shell. Later came a break with Capt. Roehm. Dr. Bell was accused of being...