Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS book of five poems is a jewel the ordinary neck cannot wear. We are told so, most tactfully, in words tucked carefully behind the title page...
...When the policeman told me Petlura was dead I could not hide my Joy. I leaped forward and threw my arms about his neck...
...hospital, who is famed for his technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...
...gauged, therefore, when she was introduced to a perfectly ordinary woman dressed in perfectly ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...
Dancing with most B. U. men, the girls say, is back breaking. "They make you lean back so that you have a backache and a stiff neck the next day. They dance rather well, though...