Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
...girl, only 18, struck a few feet from the men. Most of her teeth were knocked out. Chunks of flesh were torn from her face. Her pelvis was shattered. The sharp end of a broken bone stuck out of her thigh...
Married. Francis Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle of Brandon, 82; and Mrs. Julia Emma Isobella FitzGerald Spring Rice, 81, sister of his deceased first wife; in a London Registry Office at which the bride, her thigh lately fractured, arrived in a wheel chair...
...Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
Early one morning Professional Tennist Vincent Richards was driving through The Bronx. Drowsy or blinded by headlights, he swerved into an electric light pole, clipped it off, demolished his car. Doctors said he had a broken right arm. a broken thigh, a dislocated hip which might end his career...