Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the story of a hillbilly boy from the South who makes good as an electrical worker during the boom years. His domain was the wide world outside any Pullman window-a world across which marches mile on mile of high-tension wire, sagging between skeleton towers...
Rich Egyptians often sat a skeleton at their feasts as a reminder of the nearness of Death, the promise of Resurrection...
John Hunter (1728-93), great English surgeon, once sat a skeleton beside his sole pupil at a lecture so that "when I address you as gentlemen...
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
Last week in Chicago's Palmer House, nine men and women calling themselves naprapaths, without the wit of Hunter or Bentham, without the reverence of the Egyptians, made shocking news by having a skeleton as honor guest at breakfast...