Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure formerly used, planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such scaffolding as an aid to intellectual architecture the CRIMSON hopes to construct in the course of the next few weeks. Of necessity of a skeleton nature and weak in many points, it may offer one or two steps for future builders or at least something which it will be profitable to fear down...
Recognizing the scantiness of material, Mr. Washburn sought to clothe his skeleton facts both in the flesh of anecdote and in the drapery of buncombe. He has not forgotten the tricks of his political trade, the "lofty" theme, the "lively" wit. A few examples...
...skeleton of Diplodocus Carnegii, the 85-foot saurian which waded through the swamps of Utah approximately 10,000,000 years ago, has been hewed out in 25 tons of sandstone, near Vernal, Utah, by Dr. C. W. Gilmore, of the U. S. National Museum. It was hauled 152 miles over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck...
...while they may make very fine broth for themselves, they most certainly ruin the consumer's. Public control of industries has never been looked upon with favor and the Coal Commission has apparently fallen in with this sentiment by suggesting as a remedy the setting up of a "skeleton regulative machinery" over the entire production and interstate distribution of coal to be used only when the President judges that "an emergency exists". No doubt the Commission is right in implying that such profiteering exists only when there is or is expected to be a shortage. But even in fair years...
Many and many a year ago was this plot skeleton first set up for celluloid decoration. Despite its age, Barthelmess makes it dance with more than its share of youthful agility. His own part is set squarely in a favorite groove. His supporters (particularly Dorothy Mackaill) know well and perform capably their various businesses...