Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDERS AT SCANDAL HOUSE- Peter Hunt - Appleton-Century ($2). There were too many members of the ill-assorted family, when they gathered to lock a skeleton more firmly in a closet; they began to die, one by one. The 'legger-undertaker had five corpses to lay out before an easy-going gentleman-policeman really laid the ghost...
...ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...
...into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry...
...talk Recovery a Cabinet party consisting of Attorney General Cummings, Secretaries Swanson, Ickes, Dern and Roper was waiting to be taken aboard the cruiser, whose isolation the President liked so well that he elected to remain aboard 36 more hours before going to the White House. While his skeleton Cabinet of landlubbers prepared to brave seasickness on the Chesapeake's choppy waters in order to keep their appointment, the President fired a bombshell over the warship's wireless at the London Conference. The bomb-enunciation of a brand new reason for his refusal to stabilize currencies-exploded; seemed...
...Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized. Many a onetime disciple has drifted away, revising, overhauling, stripping the flesh from the impregnable skeleton of the original discovery and clothing it anew. One early disciple. Dr. Alfred Adler, discovered the Inferiority Complex, whose wide acceptance has nearly shouldered aside the Freudian interpretations, among them the Oedipus Complex. Today the word ''Freudian" is far less used by bigwigs of the psychological sciences than...