Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...
...lacrimal bone, smallest and most fragile of the face, of one of the boys was abnormal, suggesting, said Professor Wright, that he had ''cried his eyes...
Fellow-members of the Exchange were dumbfounded. No more anti-social act could they imagine. Such a man was beyond the pale. Last week four different brokers sprang forward to seize the bone which had belonged to Trader Goldman by announcing themselves as specialists in the three stocks which had been all his. No stock exchange rule did they violate, for any member may open a "book"' as a specialist in any stock at any time. Usage and small possibilities of profit ordinarily keep members from "horning in" on each other's business. But last week bitter brokers...
...were waiting to see how she would perform as hostess of the White House. That Washington's fifth Depression winter would lack Taftian social glitter was to be expected. But busy Mrs. Roosevelt announced two innovations calculated to strip the season's social functions to the bare bone of practicality...
Strengthened by the back-bone of last year's first team, the Varsity squash squad anticipates a successful 1933-34 season, a season which, following last winter's policy, will include in addition to the Massachusetts Squash-Racquets League series, matches with M.I.T., Princeton, Yale, and possibly Dartmouth...