Word: necks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smokeless Coal Smythes, who was determined to woo & win Alice, partly for her looks and partly for her $20 million which would help stabilize the shaky family business. After announcing: "I'll catch my little filly, I'll tame her, willy nilly, right round the neck I'll noose her and nevermore will loose her," he got a job as Alice's private secretary. For an act or so, Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second act finale where things started popping in the old Viennese operettas, Alice announced to a party of distinguished guests...
...sailed through 193 to 27. Half of the cut in funds for occupied areas was also restored. It was a compromise designed to keep everybody happy: the House had had its fun, swinging the ax -and, in the end, ECA was probably not hurt badly, just nicked in the neck...
...young Negro was lynched in Irwington, Georgia during the night by a white mob which took him from a sheriff's house, part of which served as a jail. The 28-year-old-Negro, Calif Hill, Jr., was found badly beaten with bullet holes in the heart and neck, lying by a creak...
Marino Marini's entry was Cavaliere, a horse and rider that appeared to have just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey. The horse, whose plump body and delicate, spindly legs were more Chinese than European, stood with its neck stretched straight out; the flowing horizontal from its muzzle to its tail was unbroken except by the rider, who looked both babyish and brave-lonely, puzzled and somehow heroic...
...Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...