Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage of the powerless. The padrone made me mad. The third day he said to me: 'You are too well dressed! . . .' That phrase was meant to convey an insinuation. I should have liked to rebel and to crack the skull of this upstart who was accusing me of laziness while my limbs were giving beneath the weight of the stones-I wanted to shout out in his face: 'You coward, you coward!' And then? The man who pays you is always in the right. Saturday evening came...
...came from the greatest digging project in history: the exhumation of the Athenian agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which began in May (TIME, May 10). At Gibraltar, a Miss Garrod of Oxford University unearthed the frontal bone and other fragments of an immature human skull estimated 25,000 years old (Stone Age). At Corinth, Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton University conducted excavations on the great theatre site, disclosing several superimposed theatres of various eras, sculptures of Greeks and Amazons embattled, the labors of Hercules, giants' heads...
Charles Dickens tells how the ladies of his time put in their albums the nail parings of royalty. Flaxen hair, if long and on the skull, brought ten shillings an ounce in England in 1662. Last week in California a moving-picture star was offered $5,000 for the trimmings of his next haircut. The buyer stated that he sold the stellar tufts, together with reproductions of photographs, for $10 and up per package...
...fashioned car bumped over the rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped out of the window. Her skull was fractured, her neck broken...
...just want old to say that you ought to have listed old Rutgers with her Cap to and Skull among the colleges with senior honor societies in [TIME, May 31, EDUCATION]. I'm not a Rutgers man myself, having schooled where lots of others did in the university of hard knocks. So of course I'm not intimate with Cap and Skull. But that lets me write you what those modest boys wouldn't be able to-that right here in New Brunswick is one of the dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college...