Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tintin are the cartoons in the Paris weekly L'Express by Sine (real name: Maurice Sinet), 29, France's highest-paid freelance artist (posters, stage sets, animated ads). Sine's more innocent drawings include murders -a wife eating her husband's brains after dicing his skull like a melon. His really mordant streak is reserved for legless cripples who leave their carts outside Moslem temples beside the shoes of other visitors and boy scouts who thumb rides from Christ as he walks with his cross...
...story that President Lowell used to tell about the man who sent his twin sons off to college--one to Harvard, the other to Yale--in order to tell them apart. The Yalie was elected president of his class and varsity football captain, and became a member of Skull and Bones. The other half of the set had a beard by the end of his freshman year, narrowed his circle of friends to four people, and graduated summa. And after graduation, they still couldn't tell them apart
...While they are public to the extent that the names of new members appear in the paper every year, they are secret in that no one ever reveals what goes on inside. Some have no windows. Others have many exits. Many retain mystical ceremonies and most have strange customs. Skull and Bones, for example, has the tradition that every member must leave the room when an outsider says the name of their society. This has led to numerous jokes, such as the hiring of a gang of bums to get up and leave when the words "Skull and Bones" were...
Professor Greg was very thin, and his white skull seemed to be almost visible through the thin layer of skin. In looking at him, one might entertain the fancy that he was a life-like statue. Once a student had said that during his visit with Professor Greg he had somehow felt like posterity itself being able to talk with the living past. He had also said that listening to Professor Greg was like being inland and lying in bed at night listening to the subdued roar of the ocean. This latter remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg...
...enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...