Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale's annual Tap Day (senior society elections), held last week, the first man chosen by Scroll & Key was Woodruff R. Tappen, junior varsity stroke oar, tapped by Paul Mellon, son of the Secretary of the Treasury. The seventh man chosen by Skull & Bones was Waldo W. Green, football captain-elect, tapped by George Harris Crile, son of Dr. George W. Crile, famed Cleveland physician whose clinic was last week a scene of catastrophe...
...take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing. In the new order of things, prisoners' brains will be blown out by pressing a revolver barrel firmly against the back of the skull and pulling the trigger...
...skull in a glass case was next set on the table. Whenever desired by anyone present, the skull would open and close its mouth...
...Brown, wife of a Kentucky bond salesman. What apparently happened: Mr. Smith wished to escort Mrs. Brown home. So did Oilman Bell. In a tussle Oilman Bell shoved Mr. Smith, who fell in the gutter. Next afternoon he died at his hotel, supposedly of diabetes. Autopsy revealed a fractured skull...
...complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British listener can concentrate satisfactorily, enjoys the auditory image...