Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the New Republic's Presidential poll for " liberals" favors Ford. The Detroiter has passed Borah and is neck and neck with La Follette, who is distanced only by McAdoo...
...Lung-and so the days went on-in spite of the degraded persistence of the effete Ming-Shu, Kai Lung always managed to turn aside with a novelette in one style or another, the blade of the axe of doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung's place in the Oriental jail-and Kai Lung, happily bribed, and urbane as ever, departed...
...alive by artificial respiration of oxygen, was saved at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children when X-ray treatment to reduce an abnormal thymus gland was applied under the direction of Dr. Mary Halton. The thymus is a small ductless gland situated at the base of the neck, whose functions are imperfectly understood, though its secretion or " hormone " is believed to influence children's growth and bone formation. It is present in children from before birth until puberty...
...carbuncle on the neck of Senator David A. Reed prematurely ended the Senator's speaking tour in Pennsylvania. He had just begun a swing around the state with Senator Pepper "to get acquainted with the people." He entered the hospital at Titusville. "Next year the American people will elect a President of the United States, and, to insure the complete restoration of such a government as Lincoln demanded, the people would do well to stand squarely behind the greatest exponent and champion of popular rights that has loomed upon the national horizon in the last 40 years-William Randolph...
...approach. Mr. Lee spoke with him for two hours in one of his hotels which bore signs at the door, French and Belgians Will Not Be Accommodated. Stinnes said that his workmen in the Ruhr continually urge him to allow them to rise up and throw the French neck and crop out of the country, but he always counsels nonresistance." Peaceful though the occupation of the Rhineland may look on paper, it is real war in the feeling it arouses in the people of the territory...