Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, Deputy Farinacci, leader of the '"Savage" or reactionary wing of the Fascist Party, extricated himself from the welter of fists and feet, dragging Communist Deputy Damen by the scruff of his neck. Backing his victim up against the wall, the Fascist proceeded to inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious...
...clothes and razors." So runs the CRIMSON report, and let every undergraduate pray that it encountered no dean's wary eye. Not that any august member of the administrative board would consider attempting a second-story entrance into a seventh-grouper's room for the purpose of confiscating his neck-ties and garters. This would be clearly impracticable, for if the dean didn't accidentally get his room-mate's apparel, the delinquent could. And besides there might be unfortunate publicity if a yard-cop should collar the administrator of justice, and turn him over to the Brattle Square police...
Helen beats Margaret by a neck as the most popular girl at the Junior Prom on tomorrow evening. Tabulations of the 128 different girls names which the members of 1926 have chosen as befitting the greatest dance of the year, give Helen 22 votes to 21 for Margaret. Dorothy won third place in the poll where the Juniors unwittingly voted with 16 choices...
...Ship discipline is occasionally weakened by this influx of society scions. I never heard a man swear like the bos'n who saw a fat first cabin passenger fall on the neck of one of the deck-hands. She happened to be the aunt of one of his fraternity brothers...
...sped the cyclist, passed the carriage, threw the contents of his bottle (acid) at the Cadi who was badly burned about the neck, chest, left hand, suffered from shock...