Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WINGS - Ethel M. Kelley - Knopf ($2.00). The caricature of a complacent male reviewing, through the smoke of his cigarette, his many loves . . . ladies, who for desire of his smug lips are hanging by the neck from his shoestrings, plunging to death from the bridge of his nose, smothering themselves in his pockets. Such a caricature is Jasper Hutchinson. Also, he is a genius, and resembles a Greek god; possibly the Greek god Priapus.* The story of his devastating parade through the, lives of many women begins with the last-the little debutante whom he is to marry. Drinking the honey...
...Dutchman, one Takkenberg, entered the city of Paris. He wore a heavy leather coat, leather gloves, and a cushion on the back of his neck. He had taken just eight months to reach Paris from Holland and had just six months more in which to reach Marseilles in order to win a wager. He travels about five miles a day. His method of progression is to put his hands on the ground, lift his feet, turn a neat somersault, repeat the process ad infinitum...
...next thing he did was to jump on the running board. I took him by the neck with one hand and slapped him as hard as I could with the other. By that time a policeman came...
...International tour. Within two weeks of appearing on an Eastern field he displaced J. Watson Webb at No. 1 on Team A with smashing play. He is an all-round athlete, magnificent horseman. During one match, he surprised the gallery when he crouched over his horse's neck, jockey-like, in "riding off" an opponent. The ordinary method is to sit clamped in the saddle...
...cigars, young Sargent dared announce that no two physiques have the same flaws, that each should be made the object of close scrutiny and the subject of carefully calculated exercises. To him it was obvious that running a mile or otherwise expending energy wholesale, would not strengthen a weak neck or flabby arms so fast as studied exertion of the neck muscles or of the biceps. He invented ingenious strength and endurance tests, opened a gymnasium in Manhattan, set out to prove his theories upon his pupils...