Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberty head, to which, at President Roosevelt's behest, he added an Indian warbonnet. This is known as the Mary Cunningham design- posed by an Irish maid. The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece, showing a full-length Liberty, was modeled from a Swedish woman up to the neck, and the profile head from the Irish model...
...would leap in air, waving his legs -legs so prehensile that whenever Stecher wraps them around a wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking; the referee slapped the old man on the back. Zbyszko had thrown Stecher. . . . The old man got on his feet...
...Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street to ask for money; Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Anton Rubinstein, Lord Northcliffe, Jean de Reszke, Nellie Melba...
...recalled that the demented woman, now 50, once said that she attempted to commit suicide "for the glory of God." Sitting in her cell at Rome, her face and neck scratched, her dress untidy, she declared: "Supernatural forces entrusted me with the lofty mission of attempting to kill Mussolini...
Swatting their visitors about the head, neck and shoulders, wobbling their netted sticks in that peculiar fashion invented by the Indians but copied to perfection by clever palefaces, flirting the hard little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...