Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hellman has increased the ugliness of the play by chiselling each character to the bone. One or two incidents seemed a little more overwhelming than they had to be. Tallulah Bankhead, hungering for the fruits of wealth and waiting for her husband to die, performs to perfection the subtle shifting between cajolery and tyranny. Her two brothers whose ruthlessness is matched only by hers are done to a turn by Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid. Overcoming a tendency to over-act at first, Patricia Collinge is at the end the most convincing (if that is possible) of them...
...Varsity hockey team's hopes of defeating Princeton and Yale this week received a staggering blow yesterday when it was learned that goalie Vint Freedley will be on the inactive list for the rest of the season because of a fractured cheek bone received in the Toronto tilt Thursday night...
Though Freedley's malar bone received a triple fracture in the first period of the Toronto game Thursday night, he played for the rest of the evening and in the Queens encounter Friday night. He learned on returning here that his face will be permanently disfigured if his cheek bone is injured again...
...Britons. On March 11, the United Kingdom goes on a ration of 1 shilling 10 pence worth of fresh meat per adult person per week (children under 6, half that). This will mean one pound to a pound and one-half, according to the cut, including fat and bone. Normal British meat consumption is one pound and three-quarters per person per week. But liver, kidneys, tongue, sausage will not be rationed, and restaurants may sell meat meals irrespective of ration cards, but their meat supply will be cut 40%. Government inspectors are on the alert for bootleg butchers...
Dogs may have small bones, contrary to popular opinion, but it is better if the animal has nothing pressing it to make it "defensively swallow a bone that is too large for the stomach in order to prevent some other dog, cat, or human from getting this choice morsel...