Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dopesters, pollsters, pundits, bigwigs, wardheelers-all shapes & sizes of political wiseacres-were now getting phenomenally nervous. By all counts this was one of the queerest, bitterest-and closest-of all the Presidential races in U.S. history. So dead certain were all the experts that the race would be neck-&-neck that a comfortable victory by either candidate would make political expertism indefinitely suspect. And the polls were indecisive-if they showed anything it was that Dewey had drawn nearly level since midsummer. (Only the gamblers saw it as 3-to-1 for Roosevelt, and not much money was being...
...emphasized every line and bump of his skull structure. He wore a double-breasted blue suit, black shoes, a starched shirt whose collar was easily three sizes too large, revealing a wrinkled neck. I counted six furrows between his eyebrows...
...married a drunkard and became one herself. Her husband, meanwhile, got over it. In 1939, after psychiatrists had failed to cure her, she became the first woman member of Alcoholics Anonymous. She still goes to parties where drinks are served, but her drink is a horse's neck (ginger ale with lemon...
...Lupino, sharp-faced cinema minx, fell victim to a popular domestic hazard when she slipped in her bathtub, was kept to her home with a sprained neck...
Heavenly Days (RKO-Radio) is that dangerous film from whose political propaganda the U.S. once proposed to protect its troops (TIME, Aug. 21). Possible reasons: 1) in a dream sequence silk-hatted Capitalist Raymond Walburn plants a spatted foot on the neck of Common Man Fibber McGee; 2) elsewhere McGee murmurs some higher economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington...