Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...without serious damage to some of the works exhibited. Jan Vermeer's "Head of a Young Girl" was returned to The Hague badly cracked from sudden changes in temperature due to numerous trips. A Flemish portrait by Emanuel de Witte went back to Leipzig with a large nail-hole through the canvas...
...Frederic (Irene Castle) McLaughlin, onetime dancer, animal lover,*was thrown, suffered a broken collar bone when her hunter stumbled into a hole as he approached a jump west of Lake Forest...
Professor Clark punches a tiny hole in the ear of a rabbit, similar to the holes which women used to pierce through their ears for earrings. In the hole he puts a double window. One pane is of glass or celluloid, the other of thin mica. The panes are 1/2,000 in. apart. So soon as the window is in place, the rabbit's ear begins to heal. Blood vessels, nerves, cells, all the appurtenances of living flesh work their way between the panes. When the rabbit is fastened so that the ear hole can be placed beneath...
Some of the wounds they deal with: "One buttock is lacerated; bleeding has stopped, but he is in a horrible mess . . . There is a hole above the temple as big as an apple. His closed eyes bulge under blue lids; his puffy face is green. He has torn away the bandage, his fingers pluck at his curly black hair that is clotted with blood and dirt, they pluck at the rim of the wound. His torn brain pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams...
...John Davison Rockefeller, 91, went a golf challenge from Judge H. C. Ward, 80, of Sterling, Ill. Judge Ward dared because last week he made a hole-in-one at Rock River...