Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urged to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." A faint odor of promiscuity hangs over the seductive call of Woodbury's Facial Soap-"A Skin You Love to Touch." But the forthrightness of the Woodbury laboratories (N. Y.), is reestablished by the picture of Founder John H. Woodbury, minus neck,* appearing on each package...
...When Chairman Robinson touched on religious tolerance, she looked moved. When Nominator Roosevelt told what a fine man her husband was she looked proud, grateful. When the convention had voted, she drew out a green silk handkerchief and waved it. She let them put a Hawaiian lei around her neck. Her secretary suggested that she hold the New York delegation's state standard. It was passed up to the bo:: and she held it, beaming. Newsgatherers implored her to say something and with tears on her plump cheeks she said: "This is the happiest moment of my life...
...Houston police chiefs feared the worst and lectured their men to refrain from oldtime Southern violence. Then, one night last week, seven men hustled the wounded Powell from his hospital bed, took him to a bridge outside the city, tied a rope around his neck, pushed him off. The dark shape at the rope's end did not stop squirming and groaning. So the rope was hauled up and tied shorter, tighter. This time there was a solid jerk and a muffled snap as the body dropped. The dead thing dangled there all night...
...grew dark with night. Said he: "Alfred will never see the inside of that White House. In the first place, he won't be nominated at Houston; and if he should be nominated, he will be thoroughly licked. Alfred will get it where McAdoo got it-in the neck...
...Chrysler always looks a trifle amazed. He has a home on Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...