Word: shoulders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Louisiana Lottery. The two men introduced themselves and went off for lunch together. Great exploits were in the air. Neither of the adventurers had a partner. During lunch they eyed each other like a pair of strange coyotes, but instead of flying for throatholds, they decided to hunt shoulder to shoulder...
...levee, which gathers momentum as she gathers momentum, the audience is aware that it being treated to something almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review scenes so excellently staged and so richly coloured that they seem parts of a never ending tapestry. Every gesture made...
...Here, m'boy," they said gruffly. Or they pounded his shoulder and said so that others noticed, "Here, old scout, buy the wife an' kiddies something nice from...
...spinning-wheel that never stops, would have shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian, his shoulder heavily bandaged, was barely able to remount his vehicle, but McNamara shook himself, got up, pedaled the last mile and won the race, 2,286 miles, 146 pedaling hours...
Curious tots vexed their parents by piping: "How can you tell one kind of a Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that the Grenadier Guards wear a small white plume in the bearskin, the Coldstream Guards a red plume, the Scots no plume and the Irish a blue-green, (not "emerald") plume. To further distinguish the Guards, the buttons on their coats are spaced in a different manner for each regiment...