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...matrixes, writing endless papers about the endless stars, has not done the Director's health any good. It has not done Homer Vondorn's marital relations any good either. After a session in the Observatory his fat wife Georgianna, wearing a dress of blue georgette and a choker of garnets, is too great a comedown from the stars. To ease his troubles he takes nip by nip to drink. In the middle of a nightmare of domestic infelicity and over work he wakes up to find he has tuberculosis...
...funeral frock coats and stiff choker collars, Reichstag deputies joined President Paul von Hinderburg last week in a memorial service for Germany's War dead. Of the 2,000,000 Germans who were killed during the War, only 200,000 or 10% lie buried in German soil...
...dais a thin blond man in a choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
DRACULA-Bram Stoker's choker, dealing with a werewolf in count's clothing (TIME...
Wearing a choker collar that looked higher than ever, Kenesaw Mountain Landis sat down at his desk in Chicago and stared solemnly and petulantly at the 50 reporters who rose to say good morning to him. Without a word he handed to each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle...