Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That night the President did what no President had done within the memory of the oldest White House attache. He called some 35 Washington correspondents to his study. Like a football coach going through skull practice with the squad, he read the budget message he was to send to Congress next day. Then he answered the questions of his digit-dazed friends. The reward of the President's patience was a uniform and intelligent presentation to the public through the Press of his two-year $17,000,000,000 budgets...
...born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into the bent bodies, the downcast eyes, the melancholy despair and hopeless resignation of her subjects. With compassion she makes ink and paper plead for her sufferers; when he looks...
...against the boards. Shore picked himself up, skated straight into Toronto's "Ace" Bailey. When Bailey's head hit the ice, everyone in the Boston Garden could hear the thud. While Bailey's teammates carried him to the dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed him on the chin, knocked him unconscious. It took seven stitches to put Shore's scalp together. Few minutes later a bespectacled spectator in an excited crowd around the dressing-room door was punched in the eye. Connie Smythe, Maple Leaf manager...
Chief enemy of African game, decided the conference, is the professional trophy hunter. Traffic in trophies, which may be anything from a stuffed aard wolf to a zebra's skull, will be strictly supervised. Hunters must prove that their trophies have been legally obtained. Ivory and rhinoceros horns conveniently "found" on dead animals will belong to the government...
...Bronx. N. Y., Arline Robertson, 10. bouncing on her bed. bounced through a window, fell live stories, fractured her skull...