Word: chokered
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...wear, some of the most luxurious cashmeres come embroidered with pearls and bugle beads, or trimmed with mind at the neck and cuffs. The classic cashmere, often of purest white, is worn with a jumbled treasure-house of beads, necklaces, and pearls again, or with a fantastic pseudo-Renaissance choker or a vast bib of phoney gems...
...named Gerrit Snider-strode up to him, clutching a bundle wrapped in newspapers. "Would you appoint a native Alaskan, a real sourdough governor of Alaska?" the visitor demanded. Startled, Ike paused a moment, and then said yes. Snider immediately unwrapped the parcel and yanked out a two-skin sable choker...
...grew into a tall, slim man with tight-set lips. He wore a carnation in his buttonhole and a high choker collar under his laboratory apron. He showed no great interest in food, drink or money, but he smoked 50 cigarettes a day. His small sense of humor was strictly professional. "His family still possesses [a human] thighbone .. . tied with ribbon and given as a Christmas present...
...Baltimore, Hugo R. Hoffman got a letter from the main office in Washington: "There have been no vacancies in the Economic Stabilization Agency or the Office of Price Stabilization in which we could use your services." ¶ Saks Fifth Avenue offered the chic Manhattanite a black tiara hat and choker trimmed with rhinestones and a matched leash and collar for her dog-$55 the set. I. Mangin suggested an electric-driven "magic pillow," to support the back of the "tired-busy woman," the head of the "tired businessman." "Its pulsating motion reduces nervous tension," explained Magnin, and asked...
...reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from ads as men turned to the soft, collar-attached shirt. Cluett, Peabody almost vanished with...