Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
...ambitious heavyweights, showed his gold front teeth at King Levinsky, onetime Chicago fish-peddler whose manager is his sister, Mrs. ("Leaping") Lena Levy. As usual, when he is fighting someone with a punch, Uzcudun tucked his chin against his chest, allowed Levinsky to pound the top of his Neanderthal skull. After ten rounds of these tactics, one of the judges voted to call it a draw. The other judge and Referee, Phil Collins, overruled him because Levinsky, though comically inaccurate, had been energetic enough, particularly in the last three rounds...
...races proper proceeded without mishap, save for the injury of one of 13 'chute jumpers who took leave of a Ford trimotor together. The unlucky 13th landed in the grandstand, broke a leg, hurt his skull. Betty Lund, whose husband "Freddy" Lund was a flying partner of Dale ("Red") Jackson (see col. 3), stunted a taper wing Waco as if she had never heard that both men were killed doing that very thing...
...fourth century, as can be seen in the not quite symmetrical eyes and eyebrows and in the cheek bones. This tendency is not carried far, however. Thus the early years of the fourth century is the period to which this head may be assigned while the shape of the skull, with its strongly curved outline and slightly tapering face, points to a master of the Attic school...
...life into his monster by hoisting him up to the ceiling on an operating table, causing electricity to crackle from all quarters, the doctor (Colin Clive) is stupid enough to leave him in the basement with an inadequate guard. The monster (played by Boris Karloff, who wears a square skull, tubes in his neck, scarred wrists, thick-eyelids and an immobile expression) throttles an assistant doctor who is trying to anesthetize him, stumbles angrily away from his operating table, escapes from the mill. After ravaging the country side, he assaults the doctor's fiancee (Mae Clarke) on the morning...