Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last four years there has hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...
...lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...
Last week the old shaft was re-opened for repairs. School was out but officials were hastily summoned. Crouched at the bottom of the shaft, by its side a jackknife, a pair of work shoes, a few shreds of moldering cloth, lay a dusty skeleton. The skull was cracked. It had been a youth of from 16 to 20 years old. It had been there perhaps ten years. That was all: none could remember any disappearances or accidents. Many students had come & gone...
Then came one Charles Cooper to examine the skeleton. It was his nephew Perlie, he said, 16-year-old Perlie Guelsby Hogg who disappeared Dec. 16, 1922. He remembered that "Perlie was carefree and happy when he started out to school that morning. He was thinking of Christmas vacation and the good times he could have hunting. He didn't have any enemies. ... I worried for weeks about his disappearance...
...Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull.? Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6½ tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...