Word: craniums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces of horse opera to find a U. S. publisher, D'Annunzio runs to 583 pages, carries conviction in none of them. To U. S. readers...
...Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
Structurally or functionally speaking, TIME left itself wide open for a sock on its figurative cranium when describing the physical and mental examination of teachers (March 7) as extending "from toe to cerebellum...
...daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall at 9:30, bolts down a few fried eggs, and then dashes for Widener, after having read the daily paper, looked at his mail, and generally dissipated an hour or so, he is greatly irked by any sort of delay...
...owned, how much they controlled. His star witness was George Alexander Ball, whose name is a household word to millions of farmers' wives who put up their preserves in his "Ball Perfect Mason" jars. Mr. Ball, a pale, grey-mustached septuagenarian with a frosty fringe around his bald cranium, told how he and Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson, to whom the late O. P. Van Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica Corp., put up $3,121,000 to buy at auction from J. P. Morgan & Co. collateral that had once secured a $39,500,000 loan...