Word: chokered
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...steel-rimmed glasses and beaded chiffon dress, the little old lady looked like a tintype grandmother. Her birdlike, smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...After 20 months of marriage, she sued for separation, asked $750 a week temporary alimony. She complained that he had once faked a foreign accent, pounded on the door and yelled: "Poor lady, your husband has been killed in an automobile accident !" He had also ripped off her pearl choker in a restaurant, she said; complained about her cooking and thrown food in her face; suggested that she commit suicide ("It would be very dramatic. It would end all your troubles and a lot of other women would feel awfully sorry for you"). In rebuttal Morgan told the court...
...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
...faintly haughty, uptilted face and alabaster gaze were framed between a velvet choker and a brave upswept chignon. Her manner and her clothes were proud, yet just a shade on the bold side. She was seen everywhere-at fashionable parties and on bathing beaches, in books and magazines, especially Life, and in hundreds of thousands of real-life copies. She was the Glamor Girl of the Gay Nineties, the unforgettable Gibson Girl...
Traditionally, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Northwest loggers come out of the woods. The rainswept camps in the hills close down; over the Jogging railroads that curve through the logged-off land, over the pitted roads, the fallers, buckers, choker setters, whistle punks hurry to the cities or for a visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing...