Word: neckedness
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But William Ayers is not bull-necked for nothing. Says he, keeping out of earshot of Editor Bradley: "I'm going to have that all-girl copy desk yet-the swellest hennery in town. Maybe my approach wasn't right."
The Streamliner was streaking toward the mountains when the bull-necked builder of bridges, dams and ships came to his peroration, from Tennyson's Locksley Hall:
Painter & Poet. For Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism was a neomedieval dream of romantic love and beauty. His rich, sensuous canvases became as famous as the poems he wrote to go with them. Rossetti had married the beautiful Elizabeth who for years had served as model for the dreamy, giraffe-necked ladies...
The authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone...
Usually hopeful of being able to work up a little conventional froth over spirited Mrs. Hutchins' unconventional work, Chicagoans could do nothing but admire Young Mother. The artist's other offerings-terra cotta heads and oil paintings-were sober, sound and slight. Views of the University of Chicago...