Word: craniums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting in a sort of warehouse, in a cleft between stacks of books and papers, an aging, well-fleshed man with a baldish cranium and lips that purse above a button chin, has lately been saying over and over again: "Coolidge will be reelected. ... It is a certainty that Coolidge will be reelected. . . . Coolidge has had only ONE election. . . . He will be re-elected...
...world knows a certain horse-jawed, long-nosed, highbrowed countenance with deep cheek grooves beside the wide mouth; eyes hooded, alert and slanting slightly downward into a squint at the outside corners; the high, narrow cranium flanked by lean temples and longish ears. It is not an uncommon face in the U. S. but a single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University...
...mature persons Zip has always been lacking in appeal. His sharply domed cranium, monkey-fur suit, and ingrowing personality, seem all too slight an excuse for the sizable cheques which he has drawn for many years from the Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Brothers circus...
Skull. The skull is the bony framework of the head. It is divided into the bones of the cranium and of the face. The face bones are not to be considered in the discussion of this operation. The bones of the cranium form the brain case. They are the occipital, the two parietals, the frontal, the two temporals, the sphenoid (wedge-formed) and the ethmoid (sieve-formed). At birth these bones are not completely joined, the jointure being fulfilled by membranes, which change into bone as the person grows older...
...wore white gloves and tan shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...