Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...
...about. Or maybe just have a friend to talk to. Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently. He even went so far as to argue with a Cabinet minister, which upset him to the point where he fell down a stairway and knocked a bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered completely, he began unaccountably asking the why of things, had his first intimate talk with his handsome, radical-minded son Max, who immediately egged his father on to put the Cabinet ministers in their place. Princess Charlotte, quick-witted and unconventional like...
...place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage to make it look like an attempted assassination, so that abdication now would look like cowardice rather than a rebuke to his Cabinet. King John admitted he was licked. Soon after he became seriously ill, the loose bone was discovered and fixed, whereupon the King recovered rapidly, became his old rubber-stamp self again...
...right of their normal position. Thus Martian vapor lines would have been separated from those of Earth. The astronomers armed the 100-in. telescope with a 9-ft. spectral grating, but no Martian vapor lines showed up. They concluded that the planet's atmosphere is very nearly bone...
Tendered respectfully to Speaker Bankhead of the House of Representatives last week was the second such record. With bone-dry formality it stated the decisions, votes and reasoning of the Board at 15 meetings during 1936, disclosed one surprising fact: the Board was not unanimous but divided on its most generally applauded action, the first, 50% increase in member bank reserve requirements, which took effect last August. The dissenters: Governors John Keown McKee and Chester Charles Davis. Whether they disagreed in whole or in part with the Board's consensus was not revealed. Whether or not they came around...