Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were such protests, Adolf Hitler ignored them, relying upon heavy concentrations of Italian warships off the Balearics and Eastern Spain to wreck any trap which French naval concentrations at more distant Toulon and Bone might conceivably try to spring...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...unhappy legislators showed a disinclination to accept any such responsibility, and the measure was defeated in committee in the Democratic Senate. The chains thought they had won. Suddenly Governor Earle put the so-called Store Tax Bill on his list of "must" legislation, turned on the kind of bone-crushing political pressure for which Pennsylvania, Democratic or Republican, is justly famed. The Governor's philosophy: "Let's have many small capitalists instead of a few large ones...
Last week Barbara Stobie was delivered of this monstrosity. As an artist and photographers recorded the scene, Surgeon Clarence William Brunkow made a seven-inch incision from the tip of her breast bone past the left of her navel. Lying horizontally within her abdomen, between the top of her stomach and her spine, was a skin-like sac. Segments of Barbara's bowels were fastened to this...
...acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between the people and the organization, and he is the only connecting link...