Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Boston not many miles from where his paternal ancestors disembarked from the Mayflower he met death following an operation for a tumor which had been removed 17 years ago and had regrown involving the bone of his skull. He was buried with full military honors at the Arlington National Cemetery alongside the graves of the "Rough Riders," heroic young fighters whom Theodore Roosevelt had asked him to command in the Cuban campaigns...
Sirs: First I wish to inform you that I am not a subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension...
...Byrd crew supplied Parisians with types for all tastes. Some chose sleek, swart Bert Acosta who had piloted the big ship to the French coast and then collapsed with exhaustion. While Commander Byrd slept on the first night in Paris, Pilot Acosta, despite a broken collar bone, continued to pilot his comrades through an informal demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening...
...Governor-General of Ireland, Timothy Michael Healy, was an uncle of Kevin O'Higgins. Blood and bone, Mr. O'Higgins stood for all that gives a man the right to say: "I die for my country...
...Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...