Word: skeletonic
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Thomas E. Dewey nearly had a skeleton staff when a speedboat capsized on New York's Lake Mahopac. Briefly into the drink: the governor's executive secretary and the secretary to the governor's secretary...
...past year have embarrassed the Labor Government, turned over the gavel as party chairman for next year to gaunt Philip Noel-Baker. "Others in the National Executive have looked upon me during this year with a combination of malevolence and charity unexampled in modern times," Laski joked. "Comrades, the skeleton now goes back to the cupboard...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
...theory: aging and death usually come not from the wearing out of the whole body, but primarily of its connective tissues - the " 'elastic skeleton' forming the inner and outer lining of the body's organs." His remedy: two or three tiny shots of ACS, which sets off a sort of chain reaction producing protective cells and secretions that halt degeneration...
...once, don't blame Hollywood censorship. Cain's super-sexed passages were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...