Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D. C., a young man rushed up the street, put his hand on Col. Lindbergh's shoulder, cried: "There, I touched...
...garden of an Egyptian hotel near the great pyramid of Cheops. Nearby reclined a young woman, easing certain internal pangs with a hot water bottle. She, roused by the scion's arrogant, unbridled shouts, rose up and hurled the comforting rubber bag at the Stanley child. Striking his shoulder, the bag burst, and scalded him so smartly that a physician had to be summoned...
...Carolina, think that the new statue of Apollo Belvedere recently added to their museum is not quite the right thing. Not that reasons of art have led to this verdict; on the contrary, disapproval is based on moral grounds, for the single drapery hanging from the god's carven shoulder is looked upon as far too scanty a covering, and measures are to be taken to clothe the statue more completely...
...marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back, and the 'Cot damn fish he got to come...
...fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause. "And who" asked critics "will fight Tunney, now that Heeney has eliminated Delaney and failed to advance himself?" Answered some: "Bring back that old man, Dempsey...