Word: skeletons
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...Another skeleton boldly rattled by Banker Baker was New York Title & Mortgage, a former subsidiary divorced before the guaranteed mortgage scandal broke. New York Title's rehabilitator is suing for various sums including dividends paid to the Manhattan Co. after the title company's capital was allegedly impaired. Mr. Baker did not seem worried...
...dulled by the long ordeal of a week ago. Both physically and mentally the Blue is far off the peak which it reached on the eve of the clash with the Tiger, while Harvard's young team impressed observers with its optimism and cheerfulness as it ran through a skeleton practice today...
From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...
...More to Brookish people's point is the fact that M. le Baron Fouquier has under compilation an exhaustive Wine Gotha or Who's Who among French vintages. Next year the Academic des Oenophiles will publish this Wine Gotha with its august imprimatur. Last week their president dictated a skeleton summary of French "good years," emphasizing that they apply only to the grand vin or superior grades of wine, particularly those bottled at the chateau. Good years, with the best in italics...
...tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street-cleaning department...