Word: necked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocate of the two dollar shirt from Scotland Neck, N. C.? that was Claude Kitchin. But he was more as well. In 1901 he came to Congress, where his father had been before him, where one of his brothers (who later became Governor of North Carolina) then was. In 15 years, by his mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more?four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years...
...Wayside Players of Scarsdale contested there?ah me!?the Riverside Players of Greenwich, the Huguenot Players of New Rochelle! From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir. The Circle Players, the Temple Players, the East-West Players, the Players' League, the Stockbridge Stocks?these five arose from Manhattan, and girded their loins with batik and fine linen and came. Brooklyn, fair Brooklyn of the poets, sent forth the Adelphi Dramatic Association, the Brooklyn Institute Players, the Clark Street Players?mighty clans...
...airplane was hailed as something new, but as an advertising medium it is doomed to be short-lived. The writing is soon whisked away by the wind, and few will raise a jaded eye at the expense of a rheumatic neck to watch the gyrations of an airplane which has become a commonplace. Something more than mere novelty is demanded of the new advertising...
...University of Vienna, who has just demonstrated his findings before the Cambridge University Society of Natural History. The theory, first developed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), who held that changes in the individual due to altered needs and habits are passed on to descendants (e. g., the neck of the giraffe is long because its ancestors had to stretch to reach the foliage), was taken over in part by Darwin, who believed it to be one of the methods through which natural selection operates. Biologists then reacted from this doctrine until the opposite extreme was reached in August Weismann...
...always cared more for the steeplechase than the altar, has always been more willing to risk the royal neck in a race than the royal finger in a ring. He can scarce raise an eyebrow but the whole world notes the new slant, a dozen ladies are waiting for the word;--he smiles with appreciation and goes on with his game. He merely enters another Derby, carries a bobbing crown over hedges and dumps it in a creek...