Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred, is safe from its inventiveness. At Oxford and Cambridge, short academic gowns have been known as rags or cover-arses, bum-curtains or tail-curtains. In the 17th Century, venerable dons were called pupil-mongers, and in the 18th they were gerund-grinders. The heads of colleges were skulls ("a skull being an ancient and desiccated head"), and their meeting place was Golgotha...
...place of a skull"-from the Gospels, e.g., Matthew...
...crucifix fish, a variety of sea catfish, whose skull bones form a crucifix. 3) As camouflage against enemies. 4) In a small area of northern Michigan...
...only other item found in the room, police said, was a pin of the Yale Skull and Bones Society of which Matthiessen was a member...
Anyway, I like girls' hair cut short. Has H. A. Crosby Forbes ever felt the delightful contours of a woman's skull? Or run his fingers through her fine hair? Or kissed the back of her neck, without tasting dandruff? None of these delightful acts would be possible if great gobs of that stuff--hair--trailed down between her shoulder blades...