Word: skeletons
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...skeleton of John Wilkes Booth...
...articles were cluttered up with swatches of pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness (e.g., a, 14-page layout entitled "What Does It Mean to Be a Man?" containing everything from Mohammed's Testament to his son-in-law to a three-layer diagram of man's body, nervous system and skeleton...
...examining the progress of leaf decay under the skeleton, botanists found how long the body had been there. Their estimate checked with that of entomologists (insect specialists). Maggotts leave eggs on their prey, and learning the age of these gave the bug men an accurate estimate of how long the young woman had been dead when found...
...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...
...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...