Word: boned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intense heat made the atmosphere tremulous and wavy. At the end of three hours the heart, which was unusually big remained unconsumed. The frontal bone of the skull . . . fell off, and the brains literally seethed, bubbled and boiled. . . . Byron could not face the scene. . . . The village children . . . told each other that from these bones, once they had reached England, the dead man would come to life...
...Viennese surgeon: "With my son, Dr. Albert D. Lorenz, and Dr. D. D. Ashley, I was named as a defendant in a damage suit. The complainant, one David L. Evans, an American, alleged that in a 'careless, negligent and unscientific operation' his baby son's thigh bone was fractured; demanded $60,000 for the injuries...
...developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today lifted from the hat with ostentatious pride and self-satisfaction...
...rodent; a "most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature...
...Republican Tariff. "Let's see what the people are to get tax-free under your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this...