Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stepped last week into the White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been painted...
...great. His right foot had no toes at all. But at the ankle there was a movable, thumblike protuberance. This, as he grew older, he used effectively for washing himself, brushing his teeth and sometimes writing and drawing. Later he learned to grasp objects between his cheek and shoulder, thereby to open doors, hold a pencil or a stick with which he would strike the keys of a typewriter...
Then Dr. Mock was consulted as to whether it were possible to do anything for the boy, who had been showing a keen intelligence and an unusual ability for design. His wooden Santas, shaped with a scroll saw held between his cheek and shoulder, were already quite famed. His sketches were admirable...
...shirt and suit, to surprise his family. Now he earns his own living by designing Christmas cards, attends the Chicago Art Institute in the probability of becoming an artist. But he keeps up his old habit of opening doors by grasping the knob between his cheek and shoulder...
...opportunity was Mary's again to renew plot and counterplot for a political marriage. But, at last, she was madly in love. Her lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...