Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clams" shooting craps one night in a waterfront dive. Determined "to quit being a uncouth bum," he bought a case of whiskey and a second-hand cash register, opened a speakeasy in Manhattan's famed Fifties. One night, after some of his customers had got into a skull-cracking brawl that brought the cops swarming in. Barkeep Madden, plenty irate, took his pencil from behind his ear. poured out a piece of his mind, pasted it on the mirror behind his bar: "Just for your information we run a respectful joint in here we dont allow no blows struck...
...sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked, has man to inflict such horrible agony on fellow beings...
...with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even the latest in patented tulip-trap-door poles for the men to slide down. In fact, the only bit of equipment which the chief would like to add at the moment is a "shillalah" to crack automatically the skull of anyone sending in a false alarm from the box in front of the Lampoon. Last year this box established a new record of five false alarms in one night. Such needless trips and careless smoking are the chief grievances the Chief can recall against Harvard students as he waters...
...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...
...foot elephant grass and drew a bead with his .256 rifle. The first shot hit between the elephant's oar and eye and as the animal crumpled to the ground, another tusker charged from the grass. A charging elephant is an impossible shot because of the thick skull covering the front of its head, so all Sewall could do was to hit it in the mouth, merely giving the beast a head-ache...