Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even in evolution is it true that he who would save his life must lose it. Here if nowhere else, do the facts of evolution lead the man of science to stand shoulder to shoulder with the man of religion...
...These exercises were not, as erroneously reported in TIME last week, marked by the perennial eloquence of President Nicholas Murray Butler. His shoulder, "lamed by golf, inflamed by ocean," kept him away from the ceremony, recuperating at Southampton, L. I. TIME'S report was based upon an optimistic, seemingly reliable prediction issued at the University, and upon acquaintance with Dr. Butler's impatience with obstacles, however great, between himself and his duty...
...youths were being passed from shoulder to shoulder along the crowd. Both were sunburnt; both grinned broadly. While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...
...there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl...
...group standing near, said: "Take off your hat to our national anthem " replied: "Madam, The Star-Spangled Banner is not the national anthem of America, for it has never been authorized by Congress." She expressed surprise. At that moment a gentleman approached me from behind, tapped me on the shoulder, and said-'Excuse me, sir, you have forgotten your hat." I said: "No, sir, I have not forgotten my hat. This song is not our national anthem." He requested Mrs. Stetson to republish her famed attack upon The Star-Spangled Banner. Again as before, paid for as columns...