Word: tattooing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest bird who is matching his powers of endurance against this one-button bandit is attempting to grow fat, according to latest results, by poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and Dr. Skinner is attempting to learn when this bird will break down, exhibit signs of mental fatigue, and realize that the gambler's life...
Said the Times: "It seems that the pregnant throbbing with which the romantic writers made such a play was not so very pregnant after all. Its eerie rhythm is not in fact relayed from campfire to campfire, nor does its sullen tattoo . . . disseminate throughout half a continent between dawn and dusk portentous tidings and dreadful, urgent calls to arms...
...named Irving Katzenbogen (alias Ike Katz) took a tip from the late John Dillinger, got a plastic surgeon to remodel his face to keep the cops off his trail. He came boldly back to his old haunts-and ended up in jail. He had neglected to have a tattoo reading "True Love to Mother" removed from his right...
Fancy Free. In The Bronx, N.Y., William Storgoff, who was charged with grand larceny, forgery and impersonation, bore a tattoo reading "Death Before Dishonor...
...could take it out," Charlie said, studying the tattoo, "but you'd see the outline." "I couldn't stand even that," said Mrs. Lambert. "Let's put a dripping dagger through the head, then," suggested Charlie. "I could do that for nine shillings." It was no go. "Well," said Charlie, "I could cover it with a nice nude and a Latin inscription." "No more women," said Mrs. Lambert. At last Charlie had an idea. "Why not a snake? That would cover it." Cecil Lambert, who hadn't said a word, started from his lethargy...