Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interrupted Senator Bone of Washington...
...bone in the brain is an exceedingly rare freak. Yet it may happen when a cell from a cancerous bone floats through the blood and takes root in the brain. Last week the American Journal of Cancer carried the report of such a bone in the brain of a man who originally had a cancer in his left thigh bone...
...been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing at the barrier, cut both his legs to the bone. Before Candido Roig Roura died, the great Belmonte had taken another sword from his mozo de estoques and killed the bull, with infinite grace...
From the editorial success of the Stars & Stripes Harold Ross had carried home the outlines of a formula for a magazine to be written and edited strictly for one class of readers. Its blood and bone was to be delicate but honest humor and satire, written up to the standards of its editors, deliberately unpopular with the masses. With caviar for editorial fare, the buying power of its readers would be assured, and its advertising could be easily sold on this basis. Thus, Harold Ross's journalistic hand held a pair of aces at the start. To play...
Pirates called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...