Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life. Most people know that he was born in Iowa, son of a Quaker blacksmith; that he is chunky, round-faced, about six feet high, with beaverish shoulders and neck and with greying hair, much thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed down to a peculiar slant on the left side, where he keeps his cigars. This feature repeats his beaverish aspect which is, of course, enhanced most of all by his well-earned reputation for patient industry and again, perhaps, by his familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through...
...plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite borzoi, who jumped thirty feet out of an open window and broke his neck in a vain attempt to reach her side...
Captain Robert Dollar talks slowly, choosing his words as if they were all going in a cable. He believes there is an opportunity for every man. "From above we can hear the crowd below growling and grumbling and taking it easy." His coats are cut high in the neck and vent and long and full in the skirts like the coats seen in pictures of the great merchants of 40 years ago; he wears a heavy watch-chain. But Captain Dollar is spryer than the old traders who wore his kind of coat and watch-chain. He lives...
...oldest ticker-tape scanner in the field district. It had been rumored that there was a corner-in Radio Corporation of America, that desperate shorts who sold 350,000 shares could not borrow any stocks with which to make delivery to the purchasers at 2:15 P.M. Every craning neck in customers' rooms, every visitor in the packed galleries of the Stock Exchange, knew that General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., National Bank of Pittsburgh and the famed Fisher Brothers of Detroit owned between them almost all of the 1,155,400 shares of Radio Corporation stock outstanding. Shorts...
...Smart Set. William Haines is always the play boy, the smart aleck-sometimes in baseball uniform (Slide, Kelly, Slide), sometimes in football paddings (Brown of Harvard), sometimes in the pants of a leather neck (Tell It To the Marines) or even dressed as a cadet (West Point). This time he is a polo grandstand player. Here Actor Haines, rich man's son. flirts with Constance Howard, presses undesired kisses on her, steals her slippers at a dance, throws his shoes in the soup at a Park Avenue dinner party, salts and eats the carnations. None the less, this objectionable...