Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time and dreaming of a progress it has failed to make. Any archeologist will tell you as much; modern man has no better skull, no better brain. Just a cave man, more or less trained." Shaken, but not to his roots, George goes off with temporarily furrowed brow to play croquet with his aunt...
...Thomas Day Seymour, he is descended from two Yale presidents and has been Yale royalty from his youth. That did not keep him from taking a B. A. degree at Cambridge before he entered Yale's Class of 1908. He managed the freshman and varsity crews, belonged to Skull and Bones and a good fraternity (Alpha Delta Phi), became a history instructor three years after graduation. He was a full professor by 1919, when Woodrow Wilson drafted him for the Paris Peace Conference. He headed the U. S. Commission's Austro-Hungarian division and returned to Yale full...
Like most critics, Husband Stieglitz felt that the ablest picture in last week's show was Slimmer Days, showing a deer's skull floating in the sky above a scattering of bright field flowers, then beneath, the misty mountains of New Mexico...
...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
...nation for the minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue which troubled the campaign of 1936 and still burns. Standing up and removing his skull cap from his damp hair, the Chief Justice boomed: "Do you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of your ability"-with every word his voice grew more emphatic-"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution...