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With the entire afternoon being spent on the charging machine, tackling dummies, and blocking contrivance, as well as in man to man contact work, the line had a hard day's practice yesterday. Backs and ends went through plays in skeleton formation, with a great deal of time being spent on laterals...
...official's stenographer. Perhaps, however, a couple larking at the hill were caught under the wreck. The men who, against harsh opposition, had fought for a lighter-than-air program for the Empire were dead. Parts of the ship were scattered over five miles of terrain. The huge twisted skeleton was broken in half...
Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Clipboard is a novel without a hero. Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
...rudely fashioned of driftwood against the base of a cliff, Stubbendorff and his diggers found the clothed skeleton of Fraenkel...