Word: woundedly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
...Detroiter had a special treatment for the knife wound. Arrested for a $100 robbery, he blandly explained that he "needed more money to buy a car under the new credit control...
...sudden shift of Democratic politics in New York this politician wound...
...more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon began to look like patchwork quilts...
...Beat the Horses." In 1933, "everybody who hadn't been anybody," the buoyant George writes, "was going into Government." George had drifted from a law practice in Okolona, Miss. into the hotel business, and had wound up in Washington. Like most of his friends, in 1929 he had gone broke ($500,000 in the red). But he liked Washington and he made a lot of friends. Franklin Roosevelt did not know him "from George Spelvin," but the President appointed him one of the three District Commissioners of Washington...