Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously, and makes a practice of going to bed with a bottle, his father steps in, cuts off his allowance. Faced with a thoroughly frightening economic reality he comes to heel like the well-brought-up son of his mother that he is, drops Julie like an old bone. Author Breuer's intention was not tendentious, but Memory of Love does better as a tract on snobbery than as a tragedy of souls...
...estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode . . . thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders . . . sold to the farmers to manure their lands...
...Doorway" was the unlucky picture and Charles Sheeler, a modern painter who specializes in photographic effects in his works, was the hapless artist who deserved a much better fate than to become a bone of contention...
...fashioned high-wheel bicycles accounted for the appearance in last week's news of George Washington in a striking state of undress. Noting a sudden public interest in the "bone-shakers" of the 1860s, United Pressman Frederick Othmann took up his hat and went over to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to research...
More significant than local tussles were results in three state-wide campaigns. By only a slim margin Oregon rejected a proposition backed by the Grange to put the State into the power business. In Washington voters approved (2-to-1) the Bone Power Bill which authorizes municipalities to acquire power properties outside their corporate limits. Thus Seattle's plan of buying the $100,000,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. is now legally possible. In Minnesota the citizens endorsed public-ownership by re-electing Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Olson...