Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objective of the expedition, was not the only place explored; less extensive excavations were carried on at four other carefully selected points, all in Czechoslovakia. At Lazovice was found a cemetery where the pagan Slavic conquerors of Bohemia of 1,000 years ago buried their dead. With their skeleton were found pots, ornaments, and iron weapons. At Tisice were unearthed the remains of eight large houses built by an iron-using people who lived approximately 2,500 years ago. At Krtenov a still more ancient cemetery of the bronze age, perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting of an enormous...
...objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride with blood. There is also a revolver. That revolver was fired...
Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan-Howard, Premier Duke & Earl of England,* 16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel. presided last week at the exciting ceremony of removing from Arundel Castle's hoary vault the skeleton of his potent ancestor, the 13th Earl of Arundel, dead 336 years...
...heart of the young Duke & Earl (he is only 22) undoubtedly beat fast. If the skeleton of the Earl were found to be missing or could not be identified. Pope Pius XI would refuse beatification. But if the skeleton proved to be all right, and if suitable documents were found in the coffin, all would be well. No Howard yearns for further earthly honors; but the young Duke & Earl, educated by priests and brought up by a supremely devout mother, yearns devoutly for the holy joy of having an ancestor beatified...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...