Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor that drew up. Halfway down the drive they discovered it was the all-aluminum limousine of Secretary Mellon. Back under the portico stood Mr. Mellon, plunged in perplexity. The Messrs. Morgan & Young drove around to the portico again, got out. Mr. Morgan tapped Mr. Mellon amiably on the shoulder, assured him they had had no intention of making off with his unique machine. The next day Secretary of State Stimson reaffirmed the government's refusal to have any connection, official or otherwise, with the International Bank of Settlements. This was no direct rebuff to Messrs. Young & Morgan...
Patient butt of many an ignominy has been Princeton's famed statue "The Christian Student" Given by the late Philanthropist-Alumnus Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, it represents in seraphic terms the athlete, by means of its football attire; the student, by books and an academic robe slung over the shoulder; the Christian, by a noble, slightly disapproving expression...
Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
...Commissioners were photographed with the President on the White House posinground. The Hoover shoulder nudged close to the Wickersham shoulder, the Hoover cheeks puckered on the verge of a smile...
...hilt. The enraged beauties engaged in no vapid stabbing of the air. Like most able dancers, they had long taken fencing lessons. Panting, with clenched teeth and tousled hair, Mary Radvanny and Sussanne Winghardy skillfully thrust and parried until a well-timed lunge in tierce pinked the Winghardy shoulder...