Word: skins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the gobbet awoke, it had a skin. It could not swim, except ver- tically, like a puppy treading water, until its head grew heavy. Then it took on a tight, corrugated armor-corset. Blue flint chippings-teeth-hedged the emery-paper tongue. Filiform barbels, for probing mud, sprouted under the chin. By this time, the gobbet was recognizable as a fish, a young Sturgeon, Sturly...
...contest, which was immediately copied by the New this was to win rich rewards by writing the last lines of incomplete limericks (TIME, Feb. 23). Forthwith, letters, telegrams, telephone messages, began to rain upon the editors of the Bronx Home News. "Help us to write the last line and skin the Graphic." This is what the Public wanted the Bronx editors to do. The editors sat in consultation. One man's version of the last line of a limerick was as good as another's, they feared. They were no Brownings. "We can give them words to rhyme," said...
...punctures my skin...
...Jacinto," as they called him, advanced from Commander-in-Chief of the Texas army to President of the Republic of Texas. After Texas was admitted to the Union, in 1845, he was sent to Washington as Senator. There he went, moving once more, but going with his tiger- skin vest, his shoulder blanket and his sombrero. He would sit in the Senate all day whittling sticks, occasionally rising to deliver an oration. In his bedroom at the hotel, he hung signs saying, "My bedtime is nine o'clock...
...friend and myself motored to New Haven in the morning and parked in a field near the Bowl, along with several hundred others. After the game, and soaked to the skin, we anticipated trouble in getting out. Our fears were justified, for we had scarcely moved a few hundred feet when we were stuck in the mud--with dozens of cars nearby in the same predicament. We struggled, and cursed,--got out in the mud and rain and secured two helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles...