Word: neckedness
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Weetamoe. John Pierpont Morgan was not there, but his son Junius was and so were General Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerard Lambert, all members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had...
¶ Bull-necked Richard Shikat, called wrestling champion of the, world in New York and Pennsylvania: a bout with Ferenc Holuban, Hungarian, who lay writhing on the floor beyond the ropes, fouled by one of Shikat's headlong lunges, while the referee gave the match to Shikat. Annoyed by...
No better successor for Dr. Schacht could have been found. Not only is he an astute politician, and the political importance of the Reichsbank in Germany is very great, but he is one of the foremost economists in the country. Shaven-headed, thick-necked, he bears a distinct resemblance to...
The retreat of Germany's stiff-necked Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht at The Hague Reparations Conference last week was epic, masterful.
The peculiar strength of Dr. Schacht lies in the fact that the President of the Reichsbank is chosen for the inordinately long term of ten years, and is answerable during that time neither to the Reichstag, the Prime Minister nor the President of the Republic. Stiff-necked Dr. Schacht was...