Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does himself, can not avoid some semblance of pity for his plight. Bathtubs are such an integral part of existence that one rarely associates wrong-doing with their shiny enamel. Indeed young America is apt to consider a tub synonymous with parental urging to a goodly scrubbing. Perjury regarding neck and cars is a common crime often condoned...
...pitch to him. We took the bet, prorating it at a dollar apiece. We laid the base for a stack and began pitching in dead earnest. The man on the stack managed to keep his head above hay for a while, but before long he was up to his neck in hay that he could not handle. He managed to extricate himself from the mass of unstackable hay, slid off the stack, stuck his pitchfork in the ground, and said: "Damn it, stack it yourself...
...with the dropping mustaches is Curtis,* Republican leader. He came years ago from Kansas, with Indian blood in him. You seldom hear from him. He is all the time behind the scenes patching up compromises, pleasing people. The tall thin man next to him with the long neck is Smoot-the other Mormon. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. He speaks with a soft voice and retires from the outworks when somebody sets up an outcry. That third man, going up to them, looks like a. prosperous business man and he is. It is Butler, who is supposed...
...shuffled the varsity boat this spring, wags have said, "like a man who is trying to cheat himself at solitaire." But last Saturday he made no shifts; it was Coach Stevens of Harvard who had to rearrange his boat when Barton, No. 3, sprained three vertebrae in his neck in a boathouse accident. Harvard men were not so ready to bet on their crew after that, and indeed their caution seemed justified. The Princeton crew took the lead from the start and, moving beautifully over a lake like a wafer of aluminum, stood a length and a half ahead...
...hundred gentlemen of Mississippi, standing, with handkerchiefs over their faces, on a bridge near Picayune, one night last week, derived considerable amusement from the spectacle of a man who stood trembling before them in a cotton nightshirt with a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was attached to the railing of the bridge...