Word: neckedness
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"Entrance is forbidden to women who are not properly dressed; that is to say, those who do not have the head covered and do not wear high-necked dress with long sleeves."
Behind the Woolley-Baker controversy lay much rancor not generally known to the public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold...
JOHN L. SULLIVAN-R. F. Dibble- Little, Brown ($3.00). Lonely in their libraries, sat Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes. From a dusty railway coach in the Back Bay station, with splendor in his mien and whiskey on his breath, emerged a bull-necked Irishman. Milling crowds roared greeting. "I thank you...
Four years ago, the Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge attended a private ball given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean and later went to a charity ball at the Willard. This year the Coolidges went to no ball. But a charity ball at the new Mayflower Hotel was attended...
A lanky, long-necked clergyman emerges from the Deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, shuts behind him the learning of 40 centuries, gazes wearily down a hill black with automotive traffic, whispers: "Woe, woe is this perverse generation."