Word: spining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lottie's vanity in wearing tight shoes, and the presence in town of a "Westopractor," suave quack, supply Mrs. Bascomb with tools for a Lady Macbethian coup. She engineers the perfectly healthy, stupid girl into bed with "spine trouble." Hypochondria sets in. Lottie is bedridden...
...latter's alb has alternate red and white stripes to signify the blood and bonds of Christ. Chasuble. This (Anglican Church) garb is a heavily embroidered circular garment, sleeveless and to be slipped over the head, made of moiré silk preferably. Over the shoulders and down the spine, spreads a magnificent cross in the shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern Church. Dalmatic and Tunicle. This is a sort of fancy kimona with a slit up both sides flashed with fringes. It is flowered with embroidery. Surplice, which...
...Novel from the Play by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood - Doran ($2). Now there is a chance for all who were too young, busy, distant or improvident to see one of this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place...
Golconda, Ill., yielded a 17-foot mastodon spine from four yards of mud on the Ohio River bank...
...Princeton University, Geologist B. F. Howell announced that a tiny fossil fishplate (scale) which he had picked the previous summer out of Cambrian strata in Franklin County, Vt., had been identified as belonging to a primitive fish, the earliest known creature to possess a notochord (rudimentary spine), which swam in the days of trilobites and brachiopods as the then (over 50 million years ago) highest form of animal life. Fellow scientists named the scale in honor of its discoverer "Howell's dawn fish," marking the dawn of vertebrate life...