Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
...Geza de Takats, of Chicago's St. Luke's Hospital, think that they may have a treatment in procaine (the local anesthetic common in dentistry). In the Journal of the American Medical Association, the doctors reported last week that procaine, injected into certain nerves of the neck as soon as possible after a stroke, seems to relieve spasms in the brain's blood vessels...
Staccato Flaps. When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come...
...managers that they had a responsibility beyond making money for their stockholders. Said he: "Apparently the steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would be called on the carpet of Congress' Joint Economic Committee this week to explain...
...Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance and versatility. Colman was equally proficient in beglamored melodrama (Beau Geste, which he still considers his best picture) and in drawing-room comedy (the late Ernst Lubitsch...