Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brave John Umbles, Negro, one-time personal orderly to General John Joseph Pershing, helped save five people from drowning last summer. Later mean Mr. Umbles murdered his wife and his sister-in-law. Should Mr. Umbles be hanged by the neck? "Yes," said the Alabama jury which convicted him of his second murder. "No," said the Alabama Board of Pardons, which last week recommended that his death sentence be changed to life imprisonment...
...White Black Sheep (Richard Barthelmess). One chivalrous gesture in defense of a lady accused of thieving, and Richard Barthelmess finds himself, a man in disgrace, engaged in battle with warring tribes of the Sahara Desert. The natives seize him, bury him to the neck in sand, fling their spears all around and very close to his head. Thus teased, Actor Barthelmess registers fury; it goes hard with the dastardly natives, and the hero's side wins...
...first time that annual exodus from Cambridge with which for years Harvard students have celebrated the Christmas Spirit. To some, it means a front-seat rivalry for two short weeks with the mythical tired business man; to others it means wandering home to pick up well-intentioned neck-ties and a little rest. For others, it is rumored, the Christmas Spirit hovers over the ice-caked board walks and the dust-laden air of Widener. The Christmas Spirit, though, is pagan-hard and Christoan-strong enough to disregard such unessential differences. We are all brothers, under the skin...
...from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into a cave that had no back door...
...were saying until so suddenly interrupted by the fall of Rome, New York as painted by the best exponent of the modern school, Truthan Consequences, who can be seen hanging by the neck until dead, or Georgia Spirituals, the "Banana Comedy" lacks that essence of quintessence necessary for any successful dramatic representation--sex. Who can see sex in a banana. No one. It is impossible. As Mr. Shubert said when I talked with him between the acts, "I have a quart...