Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...they worked very hard," replied the bone-dry man. His secretary later admitted paying $200 to Mrs. Azuba Jones, late of the W. C. T. U. for "dissemination of information," a phrase that rolled somewhat acidly off Senator Reed's tongue when he learned it meant speechmaking...
...week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside him, watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper, upward and sideways, toward the brain- then stood frozen with horror as the palpable darkness of tragedy blinded them. Every light in the hospital had suddenly gone...
...gentlemen. As the three ladies respectively made Paris an offering of power, of martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...
...addition Anastasia had a protruding bone on her left foot. That protrusion is still there. Her ears are the same size and shape as Anastasia's. Anastasia's middle finger was slightly crushed in her childhood when a servant caught it in an automobile door. The middle finger is still slightly out of shape. Her hair is darker than was Anastasia's, but it has the same wave...