Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck and tail composed of scores of vertebrae and tail-bones varying from three feet to one inch in length. It browsed on trees, bushes...
...simultaneously a wife and a husband, having married a man to escape arrest and a woman " to save her soul," received an ovation when acquitted of holding up and murdering a man. The individual in question appeared in court dressed in trousers and a blouse with low neck and lace collar...
...justice Melville's Moby Dick the greatest book of the sea ever written. But he says of Whitman: "Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
...knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck; The Raft?the kind of interlude that is sandwiched in for 15 minutes between the dances at a revue; so they...
Trilby. Inspection of this film makes one wonder why the movies are not convicted as a public nuisance. The producers have taken Du Maurier's story (which is not far from the fringes of the classics) and, wringing its neck, have served the dead body. The semblance of Trilby remains - but spiritless...