Word: spined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual). In general, the life history of every individual animal is but an abbreviation of his racial history. This is true of man as of the rest of the animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms...
...tumbling Errol is the principal object of art in some extremely decorative snapshots of musical-comedy France. The comedian seems a bit less springy than formerly, for constant falls have not taken the jar off his spine. But he is as potent as ever in his tipsy dizziness, his skittish gallop. Beneath its bald dome, his elastic face is still fluent with its infantile grimaces...
Toulouse-Lautrec, hiding his spindle legs under a square table, would sit with his glass between his fingers, blowing his smoke out into the vacancy of a dream. Born aristocrat, heir to great wealth, his spine had been injured when he was a boy. The inept surgery of the time had left him painfully deformed. Unable to endure the sympathy of his lackeys, he renounced privilege, went to live in Montmartre, painted what he saw there...
...fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her-and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine...
Golfer Tolley, behemoth of Britain, open champion of France, onetime amateur champion of England, captain of the lately defeated British Walker Cup team, has, like many another sport notable, thriftily put his prominence to account. A book bearing Tolley's name on its spine has appeared in U. S. book stalls...