Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Victor Campion was born at The Maples on his father's birthday. His advent was hastened by a spring gust off the Delaware that blew a little white shawl from Mamma's neck into the face of Papa's skittish new filly. Papa was pitched on his head in the drive, never to see his heir. Mamma crumpled on the steps...
Next day she had the pleasure of seeing her picture in The New York Times?romanesque nose, sagging eyes, together with the skinny neck and long horselike upper lip which are so often the characteristics of the more unfortunate female members of the British nobility. She saw herself described as "a pretty young woman." The Daily News (for gum-chewers) went even farther afield...
...business man is duly impressed by this carefully prepared scientific explanation of what happened four years ago. But in forming an opinion as to the future, he is more apt to watch his truck driver's neck or his stenographer's legs than the deep-revolving historical conclusions of even the most eminent statisticians...
...truck driver's neck, a stenographer's legs...
After several chilly, disappointing visits to the towering, ice-clad peaks across Smith Sound, the NA1 and NA3 settled into a narrow, sheltered neck of water called Flagler's Fjord. It was only a third of the way to Cape Hubbard, but an admirable landing spot. The next days were spent, when weather permitted, plying to and from Etah with stores of oil, gasoline, food, many trips being necessary to stock the depot adequately...