Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time it was in those two and a half years that he developed the knowledge and the ability which made his rapid rise later in China possible. He is one of the large group of students who, having obtained a foreign education, now form the back-bone of the Nationalist movement...
...Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel Jeans, blond as honey. The plot gyrates masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order...
Significance. The Coolidge Administration has taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
Died. Governor Henry Lewis Whitfield, 58, onetime (1907-20) president of Mississippi State College for Women; in Jackson, Miss.; of cancer of the bone...
Died. Dr. Henry W. Frauenthal, 63, founder of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (largest orthopedic hospital in the world); having fallen from a seventh floor window; in Manhattan. In 1911 he successfully grafted the tibia bone from a dead man's leg into a girl's leg. In 1912, he saw the Titanic sink...