Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beau, remembers a rainy night in Paris that brought him a lucky meeting with a beautiful girl of the streets, new to her business. Too late he wants to find her again. Fifteen years after, he sees a beautiful skull in a friend's studio, has an inescapable feeling that it is hers...
...born on Polish territory they were never eligible for the Imperial Ballet. They toured the provinces, taking their three children with them. Sometimes they slept in peasant huts, sometimes in filthy hostelries, some-times in shabby theatres. Stanislav, the oldest son, fell from a third-story window, cracked his skull, stunted his intelligence. Father Nijinsky ran off with a dark-eyed dancer. To support the three children Vaslav's mother opened a boarding house in St. Petersburg. Vaslav was her only hope. At nine he was admitted to the Imperial Ballet School. Miracle of Nijinsky's dancing...
...into the air by a cannon. After that he was buried alive under two tons of clay. Next he fell 30 ft. off a cliff. Still later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke. At 82 he was run over by a horse & wagon. At 83 he was run over by an automobile. Thrice has lightning struck Hank Schafer...
...bloodstained knife and a powder puff were found near the Prince body. Brushing aside the powder puff, police concentrated on the knife. In the 1820's, when pomaded romantics sniffed laudanum, read Lamartine and drank from skull-shaped mugs, a secret society known as / Carbonari (the Charcoal Burners) nourished in France and Italy. There was nothing criminal about the original members who were exiled Neapolitan Liberals, forced, like true charcoal burners, to hide in the forests. Soon they took to murdering their political opponents, and later their members were neither Neapolitan nor Liberal. Their mark was a bloody dagger...
...seriously. He shot kangaroos, sold their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken, for one, five, ten, 15 and 25 miles. He has fractured his skull, broken three ribs, his arm, leg, nose and collar bone. He married his Irish nurse. Their two pretty daughters were in Madison Square Garden last week to see how their father fared...