Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skeleton...
...UNIVERSITY--The same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling...
Blasted were electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...
...annually ministers to more than a thousand students. Not only because of the skill of the Dental School men who compose the staff, but also because of the reasonable prices, the Clinic has become popular. But the unfortunate fact is that since it is forced to operate with a skeleton staff and equipment, only about one-half of the students who apply for appointments can be treated. Last year more than a thousand men were turned away,--referred to dentists practicing in the Square, where rates are considerably higher. And this condition was by no means out of the ordinary...
This Epstein did not do. All but seven of the drawings shown were directly derived from the text, reflected its despair and horror as well as its sensuous music. Examples: Danse Macabre, a female skeleton posturing on a bed, and Flowers of Evil (see cut), which even conservative London critics, shocked again, conceded to be true to the poet...