Word: skeletons
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...master of melodrama, and a big, good-natured, sentimental Irishman," has photographed the storming of the Bastille as if it happened yesterday afternoon. The whole picture constitutes a record of one of history's most melodramatic moments told in an idiom equal to its subject, from a skeleton designed by a novelist of genius. Like all real art, it achieves the general by relating the particular with an emotional intensity that never lets down from the first shot of a coach wheel being pulled through the mud of an English road to the last shot, in which the camera...
...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles...
...designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows and very little on its upper façade except for the terra cotta bands following the bare outlines of the building's steel skeleton. It was begun in 1899. It might have been run up last year. Louis Sullivan had no truck with arid, literal structuralism. He was not afraid to use decoration, loaded many a building with rich, vital, original design which he drew from the illustrations of plant morphology in Gray...
...repatriate him, the Embassy had Pentecostalist Baker brought to Moscow, thence to be shipped to the U. S. Wearing fur cap, fur-lined jacket and high boots, he joyously scrutinized the Kremlin, bemoaned the loss of his Bible. Said he: "I wasn't much more than a skeleton when the Russians picked me up. ... I couldn't make them understand what I was after, but they treated me all right. I didn't have to do a lick of work [Accepting a cigaret] I must have even backslid a little. . . . I'm so happy about going...