Word: neckedness
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Privates and noncoms captured by the U.S. get a basic allowance of 10 ? a day and can earn 80? a day by working at such jobs as fanning, road building, forestry and flood control. Unlike their officers, they can be required to work, although not at any task directly connected...
Thayre North had much ado about nothing the other nite when Charles Rinker shaved off his moustache of exactly 12 hairs after Mrs. R. delivered her ultimatum on her arrival. "Either it goes or it goes," Mrs. R. is all smiles again but Mr. R. looks mighty necked.
While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen.
But somewhere in his awkward, perverse system he had the makings of a winner. By the end of his two-year-old season, stiff-necked Count Fleet had won ten out of 15 starts, had earned $76,000, was tabbed the fastest juvenile in the history of thoroughbred racing.
The St. John's player who commanded most of the crowd's attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When...