Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boat," an ancient stern-wheeler converted into a houseboat. When the City Council decided one December to clean up the red-light district, he protested vehemently that such an action in the week before Christmas would be unChristian. On such occasions he was a formidable figure-a wry neck kept his head cocked to the right and made him look like an angry rooster. Once he ended a two-hour Council debate by rising and bellowing "Bull!" at the top of his lungs...
Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter. Mad ame wished to see a dress? The one with the elbow sleeves and the deep V-neck? But certainly, if Madame could bear to try it on. Yes? Ah, Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model...
...very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta's neck as a proving-ground. Still amnesiac, he plants her corpse on the crest of a Guy Fawkes bonfire, goes home and gets on with his concerto. Thanks to the prodding of Dr. Sanders, he begins to get his memory back while giving this work its world premiere before a socialite...
Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter. Madame wished to see a dress? The one with the elbow sleeves and the deep V-neck? But certainly, if Madame could bear to try it on. Yes? Ah, Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model of the new gown...
...curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...