Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years have proven too much for its withered neck and tall feathers and now this bird, once honored and looked up to with wonder and awe, lies discarded in some dumping ground, the location of which could not be discovered according to Notman...
Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
...incident closed when Father Tacchi-Venturi's neck was neatly bound up at the Santo Spirito Hospital. Later, seated in an armchair, he received a visit of condolence from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, suave Papal Secretary of State...
...ever kill one? I can't say that I did. I stuck a needle through the back of one's neck and as far as I could tell it was dead. I stuffed it and was using it for a pen rack until it began crawling around over the desk, and I finally had to glue it down...
...Smoke and Steel), and biographer (Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years), in Boston, his hair falling in a "harmlessly affected manner to give the man an air of privacy," gave a reading of his works in accustomed eccentric style. A large guitar was hung around his neck; at the end of his reading, he took this and strummed it while he sang old songs about the West...