Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind of that super-pressagent, Fred Schwankovsky, as a means of advertising the Fencing Club Dance. . . . The rehearsal of the routine was wonderful but both principals had stage fright, when the duel came off. ... It was mediocre fencing and poor acting. There was no "jet of blood." The wound from an epee is usually a superficial cut that takes a few seconds to stop bleeding. This was no exception. I have seen more excitement and more blood in a spontaneous duel, coming off during the class period. . . . FRANK DITURI...
...texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...
Bleeding from a head wound Pilot Leopold Galli, onetime first-string pilot in the French Air Corps, described how five Rebel pursuit ships dived at him as he approached Bilbao along the coastline at about 600 ft. Their bullets halted his port engine, wounded pilot and a woman passenger. Not pausing to let down his wheels, he dove for a pancake landing in a field...
...Kiowa Indians from Oklahoma, complete with feathers and leg bells, wound through snake dances, war dances, love dances. Chief Cozad. 73, played an Indian flute...
...Philadelphia last week the Northern Baptist Convention wound up its annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...