Word: bone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, had performed a second autopsy on the battered body of Handsome Alex, it was announced once and for all that Swindler Stavisky had committed suicide when trapped by police in Chamonix. There was only one bullet wound in the body, in the right temple. From the way the bone was shattered the pistol must have been fired almost touching the head...
...into Bone...
...with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they took him to a hospital in Wilkes-Barre. Here he lay last week, thin, white, sandy-haired, his body slowly turning to bone...
...enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken, for one, five, ten, 15 and 25 miles. He has fractured his skull, broken three ribs, his arm, leg, nose and collar bone. He married his Irish nurse. Their two pretty daughters were in Madison Square Garden last week to see how their father fared...
...Smirt). But they bear a marked likeness to the 18 volumes of one James Branch Cabell, who announced in 1929 that he would write no more of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Now 54, Author Cabell has found it impossible to change his spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused of writing in Wardour St. style-defined by Lexicographer H. W. Fowler as "... a selection of oddments...