Word: boning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Scott Cardelle Bone, formerly a prominent editor in Washington, D. C., and in Seattle, Wash., later Director of Publicity for the Republican National Committee, has definite ideas as to how the Territory can be developed. Others are more or less opposed to his point of view. He wants more authority for the officers of the Alaskan Government and more capital to develop the Territory's resources. Some Alaskans prefer more Washington control, which (if suffering from the red tape and the ignorance of distance) is at least likely to be impartial. As for capital, they fear its invasion...
...thief, thought to be a religious maniac, entered the little 13th Century Church of St. Nicholas des Champs, Paris, and departed with a bone, formerly the intrinsic property of St. Martin, which had been preserved there ever since La Chapelle de St. Martin was demolished to make way for the Library of the Arts and Crafts Museum. Consternation reigned among the congregation when the news of the missing bone was given...
...party landed in rain. Autos took them and Governor Bone to the Gubernatorial mansion. From its balcony the President spoke to the dripping crowd. " There must be a lot of Baptists in Juneau," he began. "Sturdy, majestic, stalwart and immovable are truly the only words which describe this wonderland of ours. I am proud of you, citizens of the United States. It is good to know of Alaska, and it is our purpose to know you better and have you know our Government better...
Osteopathy (from Gk., "bone dis- ease"). Founded by Dr. Andrew T. Still, an old-school physician of Baldwin, Kan., in 1874. The first college was opened at Kirksville, Mo., in 1892, and is still the headquarters of the movement. Seven other schools have been started. All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...