Word: skeletons
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...There are two which form a series, the first being called "Twenty Pounds Too Much." This shows an enormously fat, repulsive woman in a luxurious boudoir being massaged by a main. The second, "Twenty Pounds Too Little," pictures a woman, who, from lack of food, has become almost a skeleton, lying on a bare mattress in an underground squalid room, while sitting about her are her husband and little son. On a table by the bed are two empty food bowls...
...stranded ship. Though moving at only 9 m.p.h. when she struck, the 650-ft. liner had shoved her entire length onto the coral reef, was punctured in several places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days his worried vigil was rewarded with calm weather...
Yesterday Rugged Richard Harlow gave his Varsity charges a routine but vigorous practice session in preparation for a full-length game to be held this afternoon. Drill in the passing attack was the principal item of the afternoon menu, and four full teams and a host of skeleton aggregations were engaged in this pursuit at varying times throughout the practice...
...signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution to adjourn at midnight. Joyfully, Franklin Roosevelt sat down...
...barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make him look like a skeleton...