Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sands is studded with set pieces that will tickle all but misanthropes: Captain Cobb's annual auction of stolen articles, his drunken acceptance of the prize for the season's largest striped bass (illegitimately come by), his bogus historical lecture inspired by the finding of a complete skeleton. But Author Taylor's affection for Cape Cod and its people sometimes transcends comic writing, and his description of an offshore rescue by the local Coast Guard men during a hurricane is a model of exact reporting. The Bright Sands takes few fictional liberties with its natural setting. Those...
Island immigration authorities estimated that a small skeleton crew should be free to resume duties in Cambridge somewhere around the first of the year...
This was mighty strange stuff to be going to the President of the U.S. In one of the four boxes there was "a red fox Skin Containing a Magpie." In another "the bones & Skeleton of a Small burrowing wolf." A third contained a tin box of "insects mice...
...applied formula. His 203-page demonstration of Gradėre's irremediable villainy is not easily erased by a few phrases on the last three pages. As a novelist, Prizewinner Mauriac has committed his own sin: he has failed to bring the flesh of dramatic substance to the skeleton of an idea...
...this built up his story so well that some 1,200 investors, replying to his golden-phrased letters, bought stock in the mine. To keep interest at a high level, Moore sent to stockholders such telegrams as "Found more of skeleton. Skull has bullet hole through temple. Everything going good...