Now it becomes apparent that only today Kerry is questioning Bush's intelligence; what kind of candidate can he be??

Dorothy:    Oh, it's worse than Skull and Bones.

Philip:        What in God's name is Skull and Bones?

Dorothy:    It's a secret society a man belonged to one time that I had just enough sense not to marry.  It's very superior and awfully good and worthy, and they take you in and tell you all about it, just before the wedding, and when they told me about it, I called the wedding off.

 

Ernest Hemingway, "The Fifth Column" (1938)