Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...
...marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first nine-hole skirmish of the Dominion open championship, defending Champion Leo Diegel (of Great Neck, L. I.) so ventilated his scorecard that it totaled but 32 shots. A 37 in and he tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched off a spoon shot at the treacherous 250-yard 18th, holed a 2, stood second. After 18 holes...
...Milan, one Lino Pagani has invented a new instrument-the mandolinarpa, strange Siamongrelute. From a mandolin neck bulges the warped body of a baby harp, edged with scrolls...
...laugh till the tears came into his eyes at the thought of how 'that old pig looked as he rolled over on his back with his four legs stiff in the air,' and of how the farmer came out and took him by the scruff of his neck straight home...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, who recently succeeded Samuel W. Reyburn as a Director of the Guarantee Trust Company, is tall, muscular, pale-eyed, with a long neck and sloping shoulders which are the despair of tailors but which served him well at Yale (1922) where he pulled a good oar, dabbled in writing, discussed aesthetic topics with his instructors in a modest yet eager fashion. He has good taste in pictures, attends the opera regularly...