Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Vittal das Thackersey's marble villa outside Poona squatted more than 100 persons last week-Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
Rich Lord Peter Wimsey turns advertiser to solve a dubious death. He earns his four quid a week, writes many a jesting line ("The Skeleton in the Water-closet," "Snagsbury's Soups Are Best for the Troops"). The burlesqued but convincing description of an advertising agency is from first-hand knowledge; Author Dorothy Sayres has been a successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays...
...November 1932 he demanded the re-election of Herbert Hoover, declared that if President Hoover had not stood "as courageously as stood Foch at Verdun"-the Democrats "would have put us off the gold basis and the bony arm of the skeleton of Inflation would today be filching value from every savings bank account, every insurance policy and every wage envelope...
...North Atlantic traffic. Four days prior. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had prescribed a cure in the House of Commons: an "arrangement" between Cunard & White Star. He set it as a condition to government subsidies to help Cunard finish its giant ship No. 534, now an idle skeleton in a Scotch shipyard. Everybody knew White Star was suffering as badly as Cunard from 1933's disastrous ocean traffic, but a two-year moratorium had put its finances in order...
...General Discussion of the Evolution of The Skeleton," Professor Hooton, Semitic Museum...