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...board the tug Imbricaria in the Pacific, the Chief Engineer, one James Scott, mangled his finger in a flywheel so that white bone grinned through the flesh. Amputation was necessary. The tug's captain downed a pony of whisky, hammered off Air. Scott's finger with a mallet and cold chisel...
After telling your readers how much Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has desired to keep out ot public notice, you proceed to give intimate parts of her history, even telling of the fracturing of "a small bone in her shoulder, rudely tearing aside the curtain that you say she wished drawn about her own private affairs; following her on board the steamer and there showing how clever you are by pointing out the number of her rooms and showing her in bed with "white gardenias on her dresser...
...application of radium to industry, was announced to the doctors by Dr. F. L. Hoffman of Newark, N. J. Women employed in painting the dials of watches with a radium preparation to make them shine in the dark absorbed enough of the powerful and constantly disintegrating element to cause bone decay, resulting in illness and, in some cases, death...
...general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands...
...would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain" and dispensed miniature simians. To house the crowds expected, the railroad company was asked for a fleet of Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman...