Word: neckedness
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Thus everyone was obliged to seem "surprised" all over again at Jonkheer Doktor J. Loudon, stiff-necked Minister to France of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Chairman of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission.
He enjoys the confidence of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands whose Foreign Minister he is. Straight and yet portly of figure, his manner is stiff-necked and blunt. His arrival to dine heavily at one of the smart, white-painted mansions at The Hague, is announced by flunkies, unctuously intoning...
Naomi and Joe are forbidden to "keep company," but they meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she...
Not until last week, however, would even potent Mexicans have dared to cry "Rapscallion!" at steelyeyed, quick-triggered General José. Then, suddenly, President Plutarco Elias Calles, bull-necked and bushy-browed, took pen into heavy fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and...
Concerning crime, the fat Mayor said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken...