Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaped for thought, tall, easy in motion, showing the skeleton in Sensitive hands...
...Mississippi skeleton has accumulated $32,000,000 interest charges upon its $7,000,000 frame. British Corporation of Foreign Bondholders does much to discourage the purchase of bonds from Mississippi and other United States with obligations in default.* And certain States keep such bonds from their legal list. Prime example is Connecticut, whose rigid rules also bar the bonds of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma from the legal list because these States were admitted to the Union after 1896, have not had a sufficiently long history to be given full credit standing...
...parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville gag-lines, as The Big House did. Walter Huston plays the warden humanly and sensibly, although...
...skeleton, almost complete, was collected in 1928 in the Big White River Badlands, Washington County, South Dakota. It was found in the upper concretionary formation which lies in the upper middle Oreodon zone and has a sufficient number of peculiar characteristics to be deserving of a new specific name...
...ceremony in the Rathaus, were told that similar ceremonies were going on at the same time in Paris, Rome, Brussels. Spain. With an insidious revolution gnawing at his throne, all Spain under martial law, Alfonso XIII celebrated Bolivar Day in Madrid by riding in an open carriage under a skeleton guard to attend the memorial mass at the Church of San Francisco...