Word: necks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Japanese stares ardently at a pretty woman, his eyes dwell neither on her legs nor on her figure but on the suggestive curve of her neck. On "ladies day" last week the visitors' gallery of the House of Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada...
...small fry was William August Schaper. Chairman of the University's political science department, where he had taught 17 years, he was an internationally famed expert on taxation and government. Unaware that his academic neck was about to be chopped, square-bodied William Schaper was suddenly called before the regents September 13, harshly questioned by Pierce Butler about a complaint by the superpatriotic State Commission of Public Safety that he was "a rabid pro-German." Despite his denial of disloyal acts, the regents that night fired him for "his attitude." Schaper's friends charged the real reason...
Next day Dan Parker, sports editor of the Hearst Mirror, retaliated with his own fairy tale which began: "Once upon a time there was a dwarf named Screwball Bowers. Now, Screwball wasn't like other dwarfs. He was dwarfed only from the neck up." Parker's parable went on to belittle Screwball Bowers' sports knowledge, questioned his sincerity and significantly wound up with a reference to a tale that had been going the sporting rounds for some time: "He was also honest in the case of Jack Smiley, who wrote a column for Screwball's paper...
...blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall...
...himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break his neck to keep it that...