Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked up the road, found nothing, went back and installed the battery. That done, they again set out to look for Mrs. Taylor. Two hundred yards from the car they found her crumpled in a ditch, with one of her shoes clasped under her arm, scratches on her thigh, a bullet through her heart. Beside her lay General Denhardt's .45 calibre revolver with two chambers fired. Walking back toward the car, the men found General Denhardt's automobile keys and flashlight lying beside the road...
...middle, while an attendant held the creature. Peter smirked a little at first as if he were invulnerable, but presently his eyelids drooped and he slowly collapsed in a trance, with one arm outstretched like a dozing farmhand's and one foot comfortably resting on the opposite thigh (see cuts). In this "torpid condition" he remained for seven minutes-a spectacle at which Biologist Huxley goggled in utter astonishment. Dr. Thoma had no way of ascertaining what was going on in Peter's subconscious mind during the experiment, but smilingly declared: ''This initial success with...
Electricity may cure the diseased facial nerve and restore action to the features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...
...named Norma Taylor*, was also recalled by a Los Angeles policeman. Dr. Thorpe had summoned him in after Miss Taylor, intoxicated, had invaded his dining room when he was eating with his daughter, brandished a candlestick, chased him upstairs, cornered him in a bathroom, plunged a fork into his thigh...
Memphis "socialites" have been at least tutored if not bred to the better tradtion of southern manners. None would disport her thick, blackened thigh to Pictures...