Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleaded with Madame Garnett: "Please make of my wife a modern woman.") The show's finale was dedicated to them: handsome Chinese evening gowns, styled to Madame's theory that the tight neckline must be maintained, but some lacy nakedness can be permitted just beneath the neck...
...horse of hers that horsemen like best is cranky, gluttonous Lord Boswell. He is solid brown, not too big, with slim neck and the kind of pointed head horses have in old racing prints. He tries to nip and kick his ancient Negro groom, who calls him "Boss Man." His appetite is so voracious that he has to be muzzled to keep him from eating his bedding. Not long ago, his stableboys found the glass of two electric light bulbs mysteriously crunched out, and Lord Boswell up on his hind legs licking another bulb. Now Boss Man has no light...
...Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro, who has ridden many a champion: "He's a hell of a horse-when you really dig into...
Winston Churchill had some tailored shirts coming to him from Manhattan, but first the shirtmaker had some missing measurements coming to him. Unaware of the demands of true haute couture, the barrelly Briton had left only his neck-size (17½) and inside sleeve-length (20 from armpit to cuff). Cabled the shirtmaker: "Please send one old shirt for use as a model." He could scarcely do a proper job, he explained, without the outside sleeve-length, chest and waist measurements...
Boston's beleaguered fisherfolk looked uneasily toward Canada. Last week the Dominion's shipments of cod fillets to the U.S. ran almost neck-&-neck with those sliced from Boston catches. Week before, Canadians dumped more cod on Boston markets than were landed at the sprawling Fish Pier by the city's own boats. Reason: a three-month-old labor dispute had tied up the big steel trawlers of eleven of Boston's fishing companies, allowed only the smaller draggers to operate...