Word: skeletoned
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...Screened off in one corner of the Boeing plant is the growing skeleton of an even larger four-motored bomber, all details of which are still deeply secret...
...enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next to the skeleton of a dwarf once named Caroline Crachami, who does not reach up to his kneecap...
...first move towards reform must be a change in the attitude of the Department to the skeleton in its closet. The qualities of poise and self-possession, of persuasion and logic and clear, quick thinking come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising...
...millions of Indian noddles. Members of the British Royal Family have long had this basic reality embedded in their natures, and last week in King Edward VIII's hour of sorest indecision it tipped the scales. He left England as the eldest son who has locked a rattling skeleton in the Empire's closet and thrown away the key. Not ungrateful to opportune Winston Churchill, who had offered and sought to form a party of "King's men" to fight the issue out in Parliament, His Majesty rewarded this active British son of a U. S. mother...
...historic broadcast, Prince Edward did not defend either himself or Mrs. Simpson. That would have been undignified. The skeleton must not be jangled. Unmentioned therefore by Prince Edward was the clash of wills between himself and the Church of England over whether the Archbishop of Canterbury would refuse or consent to officiate at the Coronation and consecration of a King who intended to marry a woman such as Mrs. Simpson (see p. 18). In the House of Lords, the Archbishop spoke volumes when he said in a broken voice, "Of the motive which compelled the renunciation we dare not speak...