Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Alexander Skrzynski, onetime Foreign Minister and later Premier of Poland, nodded bleakly. He was much slenderer than his opponent; he wore a silk soft shirt, open at the neck...
...rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped out of the window. Her skull was fractured, her neck broken...
...first you could see them. Then you could not. Suddenly again the first horse was apparent, a flying neck with a man hunched against it; the field stood clear for a moment, then active silhouets on the hilltop. They were lost again, in the rain-shapes of fog, flying to no destination more real than the unknown termination of a myth. What horse was leading? It might be Sir Abe Bailey's Lex, an entry which Lady Astor gave the miners in South Wales as a tip to win. It might be Colorado,* the favorite on which a total...
That same day at Scotts Bluff, two pitiable figures, one of them with an empty sleeve dangling at its side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...
Perhaps the shower that fell that afternoon gave Bobby a crick in the neck. Many thought so, though he refused to admit it. Or perhaps it was just one of those inexplicable lapses that the best of players cannot escape. At all events, it was a different Jones that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating...