Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke is said to be an even better driver than the Duke of Kent. At the Tidworth Tattoo, during an episode contrasting the modern motor bandit with Dick Turpin, the Duke drove the pursuing car. The thousands of spectators present cheered him wildly for his skill and speed, but not one of them guessed the identity of the driver...
...Bettman, only specialist in plastic surgery in the Pacific Northwest, got the idea of combining tannic acid and silver nitrate for burns from his procedure for removing tattoo marks. To remove tattoos he injects tannic acid and silver nitrate solutions with a tattooing machine over the original marks. At once a black coagulum forms. The leathery surface, with the design dimly visible, peels off in a few days...
Though all novelists tacitly agree that their proper study is Man, some merely tickle or tattoo their subject. Serious novelists take a knife to him. Author Malraux's, Man's Fate (TIME. June 25), proved him to be of the surgical sort. Since not everyone can calmly witness the bloody business of such an operation, however earnestly and skilfully performed, many drew back from the spectacle of Man's Fate with shuddering dislike. The Royal Way will hardly please them better, though the surface excitement of its melodrama should make it a more popular performance...
...With no tattoo of manifestoes did the President resume his charted course. The usual banter was lacking when he held his first official press conference. He spoke forcefully and with a new determination...
...case of the Charlestown rioters, so-called, recently before the courts of this state. Commenting on that case in an editorial which you published on May 18th last, you said: "Any nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored...