Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Neck...
...word for venal treachery faced nine judges (five of them laymen) in an old Oslo lodge hall. There was no shred of dignity in his defense, only a trace of defiance in his demeanor. He sat lumpily in the prisoner's box, his reddish, thinning hair unkempt, his neck shrunken in an oversize collar, his blue eyes beady in a suet face...
...National League another photofinish was in production. The Chicago Cubs lost five games in a row, three straight to the threatening St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards, who won six in a row, were now on the Cubs' neck and breathing hard...
Three-Year Splurge. Greek-born Willie Helis, now 58, arrived in the U.S. 41 years ago with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...
...Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing up an option on Abie's Irish Rose, he went bankrupt in 1926. Assets: $200. Liabilities...