Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President personally hung the Congressional Medal of Honor around the neck of Henry Breault, torpedoman, second class, U. S. N. On Oct. 28, 1923, Breault was aboard the submarine O-5 sunk in Limon Bay off the Panama Canal in collision with the merchantship Abangares. He reached the deck before the submarine sank, discovered that one of his comrades was trapped below. He rushed down, shut a water-tight door and remained with his shipmate until the submarine was raised by a salvage party 38 hours later...
...great courtesan yields to him. She hopes to spite the Duke, who has ordered her to Paris to avoid a marital collision with his wife. Love awakens in her frostily brilliant eyes at the youth's touch, but she realizes her arms will be a millstone around his neck...
...attributes of the late President. Samuel G. Blythe put well the contrast between Cox and Wilson by asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then Cox and Reed are prepared to take the League issue- the one by the nape of the neck and the other, the seat of the trousers...
What promised to be a neck and neck race developed into a procession yesterday afternoon with the Brown Freshmen showing the Crimson quintet the way by a 22 to 11 score. Throughout the first half a combination of tight defensive work and mediocre shooting kept the scoring down and at half time the visitors led by the narow margin...
...Montana in midocean, "while ten yaks and a big brown bear screeched in frantic chorus," Hans Fimm, one-legged animal trainer, fought several hours with six monkeys escaped from their cages. Fimm was badly bitten "from neck to heel." One monkey was killed, the rest captured...