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Word: skulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After the Bell | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blazings | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert on Vaudeville | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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