Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic Party, as exemplified by its Presidential Nominee Alfred Emanuel Smith, has been christened "Diamond Lil" by the New York American (Hearst daily). A series of political cartoons† depicts her as part donkey, part woman, with big pearls around her neck, with tight-fitting, scanty black dress. She usually goes riding in an automobile with a tiger flunky and a chauffeur labelled RASKOB. Some days ago, Diamond Lil had an accident, an explosion caused by the Maine election. Her automobile was blown to smithereens. The story beneath the cartoon told...
...sleek pony stretched his neck, drew back his body, shook at the withers, coughed. Soon many another pony was coughing. There was consternation in the Long Island stables wherein were quartered the ponies, for the cough-claque lessened the chances of victory for the Argentine polo team, ready to battle a U. S. four for the championship of the Americas...
...another incident which likewise did much to enlarge his fame. He had painted a picture of famed Lord Leverhulme, soap tycoon. When Lord Leverhulme went to put this portrait in his safe, he found that the canvas was too big to fit. Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John: "The grossest, most deliberately gratuitous insult I have ever received." The students at the Slade...
...aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table. A game of chance...
...most famed of all Parisian coiffeurs. His estate at Gravigny is spacious with lawns and leafy bowers. On it he has erected his own tomb, surmounted by the colossal marble figure of a man bending over the smaller figure of a woman and gazing at her shaved neck...