Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more woe than anything else in life. A folkstory says this stomach is "lined with silver." The Master dons one of several hundred ties, selects one of 60 suits. He glances...
...Jefferson secret is a formula for making a new kind of steel; hard;as diamond, more durable. Young Donald Jefferson has charge of the formula when it disappears. Who could have stolen it? Could Miss Eames? Miss Eames, 42, diverts the passion Donald continually flings at her head so that she may marry his father. Could Bobbie Blaydes? Bobbie, Jefferson senior's old friend, is a social man, a person who plays around with many people for amusement; he knows nothing about steel, cares less. Could Jenny Carlton? Jenny, characterized as "a good egg," is Donald's cunning childhood chum...
...Present head of Macy's is Jesse Isidor Straus, who always wishes to have his middle name written in full out of respect to the memory of his father. Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...
...suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian Tinney: "Sure...
Herr Schmeling was being cautious. His opponent's long left arm was flying over-head very frequently. Senor Uzcudun was clumsy. His nose is so flattened on his face that a punch on it makes him snort for breath like a prize hog. It seemed best to him to cross his big bony arms in front of his face to protect it from Schmeling's choppy thrusts, to bend over forward and try to butt Schmeling around to where he could be hit by a wild-swinging attack. After he found the range, Uzcudun thrashed often and heavily into Schmeling...