Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious North Carolinians dug up the grave of Peter Stuart Ney, found a skeleton about the size of Marshal Ney's, made a cast of the skull which has since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal...
...which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back and other injuries, and a little thing like this does not bother me." Two days later he took a flying examination, became the first U. S. Governor to get a license to pilot an autogiro...
...have in my desk a charred piece of jawbone of the man which was handed my wife by one of the crowd at the scene. I will gladly mail this to TIME. I personally saw both bodies raked from the ashes of the house, and saw pieces of skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh to get at the bones is incorrect since it merely was necessary to break off brittle pieces of skull, jaw and leg stumps for souvenirs...
...since he went to the Senate 17 years ago. Reason: Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Down & Outer Up. During his second term as Governor of Mississippi (1928-32) blatant Theodore Bilbo kept in his office an almost life size picture of a skeleton with "Mike Conner" inscribed across the skull. At the end of that term, Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, a bright young Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison...
Competently acted, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford's humor derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...