Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stouter rope. Delay. The Negro whines: " Mister, before God, I'm innocent. That other nigger told me he did it. I would not die with a lie in my throat." The stouter rope is found, and one end is fastened carefully about the Negro's neck. He is is thrust along the bridge. The other end of the rope is fastened to the bridge...
General Charles G. Dawes chose Evanston, Ill., in which to start a new organization" Minute Men of the Constitution." Said General Dawes: "The purpose of this thing is to show these damned politicians and reformers that everyone in this neck of the woods isn't wishywashy enough to fall in line with their dictation. . . . This is a movement for good government...
With plenty of good, old-fashioned fireworks. General Dawes has heralded the forming of "The Minute Men of the Constitution" to "show these damned politicians and reformers that everyone in this neck of the woods isn't wishy-washy enough to fall in line with their dictation." The chief significance of this remark lies, of course, in his reference; to Chicago as "this neck of the woods." The spirit of the new outfit is most commendable. "We're going to out some stards into the backbone of the individual, and take a whack at the dictatorship of its political blue...
...beat in the Junior shell to 28. Half a length of open water showed between the crews as Harvard Bridge dropped astern, but the third crew, starting even with University A at the mile mark, soon forced the latter to renewed efforts. At the Henley flags the leaders were neck and neck while the Junior eight had dropped to two lengths behind...
...Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Company, recently remarked, " America's greatest asset is that every live American is up to his neck in debt." On this basis, the assets of Germany today are stupendous, incalculable...