Word: neckedness
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What the ukulele is to Hawaii, the bagpipes to Scotland, the samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares...
General Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, bull-necked Prime Minister of Spain, stepped from his private office last week, waved an amiable plump hand at a group of reporters whom he knew personally, advanced with his brother and personal adjutant, Luis Berenguer y Fuste, toward the elevator. A pale young man...
For the America's Cup-rococo, gourd-necked silver trophy 2 ft. 3 in. high, offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a sailing race in England in 1851, won by the yacht America, and ever since the property of U. S. yachtsmen:
"The army rules Bolivia," and until recently Dictator Hernando Siles ruled the army through his stiff-necked, unpopular, efficient General Hans Kundt, German Major-General lent to Bolivia by the Kaiser in 1910, naturalized Bolivian in 1919.*
"I remember a highly pleased, stiff necked Austrian aristocrat saying on his return to Vienna after the regatta, 'The secret of Lipton's success is that he makes every one round him feel so much at home. He made even the Kaiser feel at home aboard his own imperial yacht...