Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know how hasty she was. She put her hands in mine in that confiding way which is either the best or worst thing in women ? she was dressed in black velvet with a white ruff, and from her neck a thin white veil was flying?and so we came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, agreeable to arrangements made, and with military punctuality, the Cadets were at the southern barrier of the town, on the Neck. Here they were met by the Board of selectmen, who had descended from their carriages, and were attended by the Police Officer, and his assistants. Major worth, also having dismounted, was addressed by Mr. williams, chairman of the board, and his corps welcomed to the town in the most cordial manner...
...week of early season activity included a rumor that Princeton would disown the famed huddle-system which it began to use long before its puzzled rivals. Also the sixth and seventh casualties of the football season took place in hospitals. Leo Goodreau, 19, died of a broken neck in Philadelphia, calling the signals for the play in which he had been hurt. In Washington, Pa., William Charles Young had his back broken in a scratch game. In Orange, N. J., another casualty occurred. A man in a cinema theatre, watching a picture of Bruce Caldwell playing football, stood up, cheered...
...pony who most notably helped America beat the Argentine was Hitchcock's Tobiano. A litle piebald horse, striped in white on the haunches and short in the neck, as quick on the ball as a kitten, Tobiano arrived at his skill on the pampas of the Argentine, working with cowherds. Here Lewis Lacey chose the pony for his present master; the American captain played Tobiano for two periods in every game of the 1927 series against England...
...Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed. In the wrecked car were Wilfred Veno, professional hockey player, with a fractured skull and a slash across his neck from a broken windshield, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Veno, less seriously injured. They were taken to a hospital. On their car was a placard which read: "Al Smith for President...