Word: neckedness
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The University Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas has resolved that the tight-necked commencement gown now in use is very uncomfortable and not as dignified as the older type still used abroad.
Your National Affairs editors and researchers are indeed a stiff-necked race. Of the Jan. 24 issue you administer "a shocked reproof" to them for mistaking the anniversary the Jackson Day dinners celebrate. And on page 12 of the same issue these same recidivists say "Lincoln has never had his...
What neither side denied, however, was that P. R.'s 26 councilmen, who will enjoy more power to originate legislation than the old board of aldermen, were a far fresher and more prepossessing crew than the aldermen they will replace. Council President Newbold Morris, a highly respectable Wall Street...
In the nightmare of shootings, beatings and dynamitings of union organizers described to the Committee. Ben Unthank was by no means the only law officer accused. Star witness was thick-necked, freely-sweating Thomas R. Middleton, who served five months for bootlegging before he was elected High Sheriff of Harlan...
When bachelors' gowns were revived here, around 1890, the open-front type was used exclusively. A few years later, seniors began wearing their gowns all through May and June. At that time the style was altered to high-necked, in order to obviate wearing a cost under the gown.