Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...
...skeleton drill on offensive plays was next in order. Particular emphasis was layed on long forward passes, according to the official announcement. Complete secrecy was maintained concerning the backs who were concentrating on the aerial attack...
...Have ninety cases fossils. Two skulls, many bones, skeleton of gigantic new mammal, possibly larger than Baluchitherium. Humerus big as man's body. Huge titanothere, extraordinary saddle-like skull. New mastodon, spatulate jaw, lower incisors eighteen inches wide...
...Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions, and not with her onetime parental status as "The Mother Country." Clearly these formulae are intentionally so loose and general as to leave enough space in Mother England's cupboard for much harmless rattling of the skeleton called "Treason to the King...
Identification was made absolute, last week, when certain unfinished dental work in the skeleton's upper jaw was positively identified by Captain Loewenstein's dentist. Mme. Loewenstein sent a -brother and brother-in-law to view the appalling sight. Not present was son & heir Robert Loewenstein, 18, racially only half a Jew and, like his father, a Roman Catholic by conviction...