Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years have people been permitted to see it. Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
Kicking, passing, blocking, tackling, and skeleton play drill filled the program of Horween's elevens yesterday. The session was a short one, team. A leaving the field at 4.30 o'clock. Before the coaches called it a day, however, the seconds came on and rau through Holy Cross plays for the combined teams...
With the entire afternoon being spent on the charging machine, tackling dummies, and blocking contrivance, as well as in man to man contact work, the line had a hard day's practice yesterday. Backs and ends went through plays in skeleton formation, with a great deal of time being spent on laterals...
...official's stenographer. Perhaps, however, a couple larking at the hill were caught under the wreck. The men who, against harsh opposition, had fought for a lighter-than-air program for the Empire were dead. Parts of the ship were scattered over five miles of terrain. The huge twisted skeleton was broken in half...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...