Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed by the President while the leaders who ushered the bill through Congress stood genially by, and Senator Simmons of North Carolina, who delayed the proceedings 20 minutes by coming late, rushed around cigar in hand, at one time almost burning the back of the President's neck, at another the hand of Senator Smoot...
Outside the station a sleek limousine belonging to the Roumanian Embassy waited. Into it stepped Mme. Lupescu, whose toque was brown. Into it stepped Carol, "whose princely Adam's Apple bounced up and down on his long scrawny neck," according to the now frankly vexed pressmen...
...Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer. But him I don't know. What does...
...creed, hemmed as he told of his woes with the Episcopal Church, loudly snickered when he told them to attend services in the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In simple, understandable vulgate the old man cried to his audience while the gold cross hung from his neck, swinging: "You can't find Christ on Park Avenue. You can find him, though, on Second Avenue or in Harlem. The church needs you. You don't need the church. Go as Christians, I tell you, and bring God to the church. Take the church at its word...
...Little John likes raspberry jam and he knows his mother has a jar on the top shelf of the pantry. When his mother goes out, he gets it and covers his face with it. She catches him and tells him if he does it again she'll break his neck...