Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Laborite Leader Ram say Macdonald rebuke Laborite Backbencher Lawson when he attempted to heckle the Speaker. Craning his neck like an angry bull turtle, former Premier Macdonald snapped: "Stop it, Lawson! Say you're sorry. Apologize to the Speaker." Mr. Lawson reddened, purpled, offered the (for him) supreme apology of remaining silent for some hours...
Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...
...wind blew cool over a little, wrapped head lying on the lawn; serpentinely swayed a rope dangling from above, its lower end knotted about the lady's slender alabastine neck. No moon shone on that July night last week...
...prophesy that France will win the Davis cup this year. Nobody cared. They wanted to see Mlle. Lenglen, actually applauded her when she strolled off the court with Borotra after having defeated a young Englishman and his lady. Borotra told the press that rheumatism in Mlle. Lenglen's neck and shoulders kept her from sleeping. "She is very ill ... she cries all the time . . . her mother cannot pacify her. . . ." Miss Ryan, too, fell ill, cancelled her matches. Nobody suggested that her illness was fantasy, for her temperature was only 101. Mlle. Lenglen...
...uleins of Berlin appeared recently with new parasols-sun-shades that ruffled in the wind like huge red roses. They were made of chicken feathers-the down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...