Word: skeletoned
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...sickroom. His final version accented only the patient's waxen profile and the bowed head of her mother. Next Munch ditched the literary symbolism of the '90s which had encrusted his early works. The early Munch implied death's universality by showing a skeleton embracing a nude. Later he was satisfied to suggest the same theme by painting three girls on a bridge at evening, staring down into the dark, still water...
...content with one pun, Fairless took an amiable sideswipe at congressional investigators in general. "I have been through so many congressional inquisitions," he said, "that no self-respecting skeleton would hide in my closet on a bet . . . And yet to this day, most of our inquisitors remain blissfully ignorant of the most important fact of all-how steel is made...
...spring of '49 the AYD chapter lost its charter for refusing to say who its members were. This fall the Young Republicans lost their charter because they didn't know who their officers were. The skeleton League for Democracy, despite a summer extension before rechartering, could not win back enough members...
...aspirants to declare their intentions is April 25. Poems and odes are to be handed in to Theodore Morrison '23, director of English A, at Warren House; the addresses, to Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, on the top floor of the Germanic Museum. A skeleton manuscript of five to seven minutes' duration should be submitted...
...report holds out little hope that any U.S. city would fare much better. The large windows of U.S. office buildings might relieve the stress on the skeleton by blowing in immediately-and slicing anyone near them to ribbons. The brick or cement-block walls would turn into murderous missiles...