Word: skulled
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...that if you want to become president of the United States, don’t go to Harvard. The last legitimate Harvard alumnus to become president was John F. Kennedy ’40; George W. Bush may be a Harvard Business School graduate, but given his membership in Skull and Bones and the ever-popular “Blame Yale” t-shirt, he hardly seems to count as a Harvard alum. As a good portion of the last presidential election was focused on which candidate had the lowest grade point average from Yale, it seems that national...
...Here's some ghoulish Gould from panels reprinted in Masters of American Comics, we see the detective's hair burned to the scalp; he's shot in the forehead by a .22 rifle bullet; he's left to starve to death, his own prop a smirking skull. This is the text in a Sunday splash from 1943: "A brawny arm is hurled forward! With the speed of lightning, a leather thong wraps itself around the detective's neck - he chokes. His hands struggle toward his throat. His body is yanked backward. The pain is excruciating! The whip butt rises...
...weakness that Fox lets his audiences see, like his characters' crying bouts or the fact that his voice is a little small for his body. These things make you think he's a guy just like you, if you were a little more heroic and had a skull made of granite...
Perhaps a country-themed final club—“the Armadillo”?—or secret society akin to Yale’s Skull and Bones—less psychosexual initiation rites, more hay—is the step we need. After all, Harvard students seem to love that which that spurns and excludes them...
Deep insidePalestinian territory, the Jewish community of Migron sits, precariously, on the crown of a skull-white hill. On a winter day, the wind is so fierce it rocks the trailer homes, knocks over the kids' plastic tricycles in the muddy driveways and threatens to rip out the young fruit saplings planted by the 90 young settlers who call Migron home. A guard dog the size of a lion prowls the hilltop to scare off Arab prowlers--or terrorists. Migron is a hard and unforgiving place, especially these days...