Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute clung to his back like a bad dream, unopened. The Gulf of Mexico rolling absently splashed once. Rescuers found no whole bone* in Senor Arango's corpse...
Most of the 16 episodes related hinge lightly upon Andy's habitual infatuations and insouciant technique. There is a great deal of sprightly nonsense, gorgeous absurdity and amazingly glib barbarism. Here and there comes a cut, neat and very close to the bone: a program to allow university women some escape from the sex-consciousness forced upon them by deans, pastors and mothers; the logic of a star halfback who turns professional (Red Grange) ; a moss-grown professor's vivid, wistful wife; a crisp instructress who secretly, cherishing lost youth's glamor, rouges her ear-tips. Time...
John Wesley Langley, beloved soak, bleary-eyed disciple of Sir John Falstaff,† was ten times elected Congressman from Kentucky by bone-dry, Fundamentalist, Republican mountaineers. His tongue knew well the golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate...
...sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone and sent my point through another filthy ragged jellabia in the region of its owner's fifth rib . . . from among seven bodies, some yet twitching in a pool of blood, a spouting Thing dragged itself by its fingers and toes towards the stairs...
Europe. Little news came from the greatest digging project in history: the exhumation of the Athenian agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...