Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Jacob Orgen to the scroll of those who have paid with their lives for attempting to advance their fellow man, who put their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor...
Clubwomen enjoy straight-from-the-shoulder speaking. So they enjoyed perhaps most of all a characteristic chastisement from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who snapped: "We are too sentimental, too emotional. But if we did what we ought to do we would call together all the presidents of all women's organizations (there must be a million of them) and, meeting in one room in private, discuss some fundamental questions. They would be: 'Where are we at?,' 'How much of the work that we women do outside the home is just like a kitten chasing its tail...
...Gallions Reach," part of the grey, quiet Thames that breathes near the uproarious alleys of Limehouse, Colet was pursued by a ghost. Through shipwreck, riding the hot ocean in a tiny open boat, even in the green griddle of the jungle, there was always a hand upon his shoulder, a voice in his ear. Finally he obeyed the whispered command and sailed home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent of those over which the great figures of Joseph Conrad strode. Hence Author Tomlinson, a shy, ugly, middle...
...began to read slowly, the words his great-great-grandfather had written so long ago. Corsica, land of hot skies and almost savage peasants, lifted its little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor...
...Fordham, Captain William Feaster tore a ligament in his shoulder (tackling) and will be lost for early games...