Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murmured, "I keep them to myself and profess only those of my paper." The Victorians most admired Tenniel for his illustrations to romances like Lalla Rookh and The Silver Cord, which today seem absurdly overemphatic. Tenniel's cartoons were something else again, his sharp jabs to the funny bone contrasted tellingly with the roundhouse rights of Punch's rivals. If his cartoons were not invariably from the heart, they always, like Tenniel's Alice illustrations (and like Alice herself) seemed disarmingly levelheaded...
...Antarctic fringe of the Indian Ocean, 1,200 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope and even more desolate than Tristan. Civilization had found a job for which Tristanites were peculiarly fitted; they would show South African Navymen how to stay alive on barren land in the long, bone-chilling, mid-ocean winter...
...cold had a bulldog grip. Day after day it hung on, biting to the bone. Last week the U.S. suffered more than mere discomfort...
Despite the score, Devens men were no lilies, maintaining a bone-crushing offense and defense in the second and third frames. Johnny Chase, who filled the College nets after starter Bill Yetman caught a deflected puck in the face, turned in a superb job in holding them to one goal in two periods...
...Army's bone-crushers loom as a threat to the Varsity's physical well-being if nothing more, while Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale are all powerful opponents, relying on brains as well as brawn. Return engagements with B.U. and B.C. will provide little let-up between these Ivy League games...