Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anthropologists at U. S. and European museums rejoiced at one adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
...present season. The Queen-Empress, seated before her dressing table, pondered the advisability of adding the Koh-i-nor to her already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously...
...researches of Professor Guildi necessarily resembled those of a detective as much as an archaeologist. Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet...
Whether or not this Burmese fragment was written in 1894 or dates to an earlier, simpler time, Wilde enthusiasts may decide for themselves. It is very much in the manner of his first fairy tales (The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince, etc.) which he wrote in 1888, and has not the suggestive undercurrent of his later fairy tales (House of Pomegranates), which appeared in 1892 with the explicit statement that they were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public...
...asked them where they lived. They eyed me like small animals waiting to spring but not daring. . . . A small blue-eyed girl wearing a fragment of an army overcoat over a jute sack cut short above her thin bare legs, said amiably...