Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...
...with a Tumor. Last week the anguished Dr. Fiderkiewicz let out the whole cloak & dagger story. Where were the treasures? The Minister was sure he knew. Said he darkly: "The only man who had a tumor on his ear and also knew the password is Polkowski. I wrote Polkowski asking what he had done with the art. He replied that he had given his word of honor not to reveal its location." Who was the man at Ste. Anne's? "Babinski," said Dr. Fido. ". . . It is all Babinski...
Last week the bold career of 28-year-old Charlie Edwards suddenly collapsed. Los Angeles police, tipped off by investigators from the state bar association, jailed Charlie on a half-dozen local and federal counts. His counsel indicated that Charlie would plead insanity because of a brain tumor. Said Charlie: "Sometimes I do seem to get dizzy spells...
...Yesterday morning, Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19 Tremont Row . . . visited the... hospital, and administered his preparation to produce sleep, to a person about to undergo the operation of the extraction of a tumor from the neck. . . . The patient did not manifest the slightest symptoms of suffering. ... He appeared to be totally insensible to what was going...
...Leipzig, in 1932, while he was conducting a rehearsal, a railing back of him gave way and he fell over backwards, striking his head severely at the base of the skull. A brain tumor operation in 1939 left him partially paralyzed. Then in 1941 he registered at a Rye, N.Y. sanatorium for a rest. The second day he walked out, and the sanatorium director notified the police, who issued a widely publicized nine-state alarm describing Conductor Klemperer as "dangerous and insane...