Word: necks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed surrealist emblem: the erotic white gramophone with a woman's high-heeled foot coming out of the horn; watches flattened out like flabby pancakes; "The Aphrodisiac Vampire," with the head of a tiger and a body studded with pony glasses; "The Ex quisite Corpse," its head and neck a curved umbrella handle, its chest a wooden chest, its thighs made of saucepans, its curved piano legs made of chocolate...
Shirts which are shrunk at the factory and therefore hold their own in the laundry are deemed by many a grateful tender-neck to be marvels of modern science...
Thereupon the 40 fell upon Melvin Bridge, inked a swastika on his forehead and scratched the letter H (for Hebrew) on his neck...
...patients were "suggestible," why they accepted his explanations, overcame their resistance, strove to know themselves and conquer their symptoms, was at that time a problem to Freud. One day, during her treatment, a woman patient suddenly threw her arms around his neck...
...clear-eyed American youth march lightly and boldly from out of ivied gates, only to find that a cold world has no room for them. Perhaps this can be a different commencement -- just for a change--for Harvard '39. Maybe the bond houses, closed their fabulous doors when turtle-neck sweaters went out. But, assuming that the next depression holds off a few years at least, the Class of '39 can look forward to twenty-four strikes out of twenty-five...