Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring her up. They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...
Glorious Betsy. Costumes are all right. So is the Vitaphone when it does not lisp. But the little locks on the nape of the neck of Dolores Costello are the hearts of the lettuce of this film, wherein Betsy, belle of Baltimore, wins Jerome, young brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, away from all the princesses of Europe...
...precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...
...many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
...dart off and beckon to you from the distance, let it tiptoe back and snap its fingers under your nose, let it sweep up at you from below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously behind you and tap you on the back of the neck, let it go all around and over and under you and inside you and through you. Relax, and give this PLAY a chance to strut its stuff-relax, don't worry because it's not like something else-relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about...