Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that time some 15 attempts have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...
...fire irons, tribes of tongs, shovels in sheaves Skeleton bedsteads, wardrobe drawers agape, Rows of tall, slim brass lamps with dangling gear And worse, cast clothes a-sweetening...
...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...