Word: knots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen to Hollywood's Adolphe Menjou, fashion plate since the days of the silent cinema. He offered instructions. Among them: let the jacket sleeves be narrow, and the shirt cuff showing; never wear a striped shirt with a striped suit; wear suspenders instead of a belt; let the knot of the tie be loose instead of tight; let the trousers break just over the instep; stay away from jewelry. "The well-dressed man," certified the famously high-styled actor, "is never conspicuous...
...automobile needed repairing, but when he closed up, early Christmas morning, he decided it would have to wait. He took $1,500 in small bills, headed for the grim and grimy sidewalks of the Bowery. He walked up to a knot of whiskery derelicts standing in the shelter of a doorway. "Merry Christmas," he said, holding out some money. "Have some dough...
...deadlock. A marker by B.U.'s Clopeck at 1:03 of the final period sent the Terriers into a short-lived lead, but at 4:11 Sears dented the nets for the Crimson on an assist from behind the goal by Sid Greeley to knot the score...
...eleven surged back in the third period, after an exchange of punts had placed them on the Crimson 29 yard line, when Davis plunged over from the three to knot the count at 6 to 6. A pass attempt for the point after touchdown was incomplete...
...Irrational Knot (1880), longest and woodenest of the three, is mostly about the hazards of marriage. It abounds in high-toned dialogue: "'Oh, Marmaduke! How dare you speak so of your betrothed.' " But even at 24, Shaw was already crusading (in this case against closed bedroom windows), commenting boldly on sex and sin, fluttering the gentry with open references to radicalism, atheism and the newfangled device called the electric light...