Word: lid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lid comes off for the Squash season today when the University racquetmen meet the strong Union Boat Club group. Team B. meets B. A. A. at Boston and the 1929 outfit takes on Lincoln...
...Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...publication takes to its bosom the woes of the undergraduate "whose desire for knowledge is distorted by restrictions, and sicklied o'er by contact with the chill, thus must thou do! Ambition burns, but it is shut within a hamper, with the Faculty and the System sitting upon the lid. The tyrants...
...Just as we were about to leave the tomb temporarily, I noticed that the lid of the coffin stood open about six inches propped up by a stone. I became suspicious and looked in at the body. All the gold ornaments and jewels had been stolen. The only explanation is that the last undertaker's assistant to leave the tomb had scooped his hand in just as they were leaving the tomb for the last time. So you see we always expect the worst...
...stream of pilgrims visiting Lenin's tomb in Moscow was halted by order of the Government. It was observed through the glass lid of the coffin that the mortal remains of the Bolshevik leader were decomposing, despite the fact that they had been carefully embalmed. The body is not likely to be again exhibited...