Word: crania
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...They are old and obviously had been used for ritualistic things," said Brian D. Blackbourne, chief medical examiner for the state. The doctor added that judging from the was caked atop one of the crania, a fraternity might have employed the bones for some kind of ceremony...
...Married. Crania Guinness, 39, British beer heiress, daughter of the late Lord Moyne; and Oswald Constantine John Phipps, fourth Marquess of Normanby, 38; in a suspenseful ceremony in Lythe, England. When the presiding Archbishop of York reached the point of asking if anyone had "just cause" for objection, 300 wedding guests were startled when a pale little man jumped up and cried, "Yes, I have, my Lord Archbishop." His Grace paused and looked up for an instant at Thomas Trueman, 45, who believes he has some claim to the bridegroom's Normanby title and estates. But the archbishop gave...
...history Guglielmo Ferrero had a good training -he began as a criminologist. His first book, The Delinquent Woman, was written in collaboration with Father-in-law Cesare Lombroso, author of the theory that criminals are distinct biologic types with crime written all over their eyes, ears, chins and crania. This theory, now unfashionable, caused acute embarrassment to men with recessive chins and adhesive ear lobes, used to send Novelist Leo Tolstoy (then in his primitive Christian period) into literary tantrums. Historian Ferrero has set off a number of tantrums himself...
...just heard of a thing that happened to an anthropologist connected with Harvard who got back some months ago from two years in East Africa. He was going through the Grand Central here, his mind still full of scientific data, including skull measurements and the shape of crania, when he caught sight of a Redcap who seemed unmistakably to have the Semitic cast of features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing...
...Name two U. S. citizens who took pleasure in possessing similar jaws, brows, cheek grooves, hooded eyes, narrow crania, lean temples, longish ears...