Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John J. Chapman '49, of Eliot House, sustained a fractured right collar bone, plus lacerations of the face at 1:15 o'clock last night when the car in which he and three companions were riding crashed head-on into a steel partition on the Massachusetts Avenue railroad bridge between St. Botolph's Street and Columbia...
Senator Taft's "Let 'em eat less!" [TIME, Sept. 22] reminds me of the story of the welfare worker who was instructing a group of low-income housewives how to make nutritious soup from a soup bone. When she finished she inquired if there were any questions...
...gaunt lady in the rear asked: "What I want to know is, who got the meat off that bone...
...share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into the pockets of his dungaree jacket and walked away. He was bone-tired but content. At 61, when everyone had said he was slipping, he had felt himself at a new peak of his powers. It had meant sometimes painting for 36 hours at a stretch; he had finished the 18 ft. by 36 ft. wall in a record-breaking 53 days' work...
...much of the real blood, bone and brain of Hollywood, the situation is far from funny. The trades have been full of stories about wholesale firings; panicky studios have cut salaries of office slaveys and minor employees. Big stars, on the other hand, can demand, and get, better prices than ever; for big names are still the best box-office insurance...