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Word: skeletonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disagreeableness. The Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME, May 15,1950), was there too. It portrayed Christ as a tiny figure at the top of a pyramid of grinning masks, so shocked Ensor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Belgian Misanthrope | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...skeleton of former Radcliffe tutor, Miss Irene Freuder, was examined yesterday by Dr. Leo T. Myles, medical examiner, to find whether foul play was involved in the death of the 64-year-old teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Examiner Probes Case Of Ex-Cliffe Teacher | 10/3/1951 | See Source »

...Exhumed Skeleton. The real reason for Chapman's action was that Columnist Drew Pearson had dug out, and showed Chapman, Naval Intelligence reports on skulduggery at the Harvey Machine Co. during World War II. Chapman could have found out the same facts if he had made any real investigation of the company before awarding it one of rearmament's biggest loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALUMINUM: Thumbs Down for Harvey | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Peace, if it comes, will find Korea's cities dead. In Seoul the gutted, white-domed capitol of the Republic of Korea stands like a skeleton among the city's ruins. Suwon's huge, half-destroyed gate, once a monument to Korea's kings, guards only rubble now. Fifty cities and towns in South Korea have been destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...skeleton was first glimpsed by New Hampshire's Republican Senator Charles W. Tobey four years ago. As chairman of a Senate subcommittee probing RFC, he wrote a blistering report accusing RFC and B. & O. officials of evading payment of the loans by "collusive" bankruptcy. But Tobey failed to get the committee to agree and the report was never released. Last week the report came out after an ex-Tobey aide, Randolph Phillips, a Washington financial consultant, reportedly leaked key sections to Herald Tribune Reporter Jack Steele and Columnist Drew Pearson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Rattling the Bones | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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