Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care of her. When she puts her arms around my neck and grabs me with her little legs and holds on so tight she grunts - then, I think, I realize most of all the difficulties of being an aviator's wife...
Back on the ground again. With a whole skin, and without breaking his neck. Grinning...
...idea lacks only seven centuries, an aristocracy, royalty, an established church, royal characters, religious persecutions, a list of martyrs, and a national temperament for the cloister in education, pedigreed restriction in competition, a desire to wear a gown as a muffler around the neck, and a determination to get rid of the cheer leaders without killing them...
Relatively easy, though not simple, were those stipulations for Dr. Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days...
...Near "Mile 133" on the Algoma Central Canadian Railway, last week, virile Baggageman Robert Burns dealt in pioneer fashion with a she-wolf. Seizing the beast between neck and shoulders he strangled her into a coma, carried her home securely tied with baggage car twine to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...