Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor factory girl. The story begins to unfold on the one articulated set 'at an accelerating pace. Now feeling as if he were in a nightmare, now as if he were in a lecture hall, the spectator watches Clyde's progress through his uncle's collar factory, his break with the workers in the drying room, his seduction of Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra, his wild joy when Sondra proposes to him, his wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips...
...Boston to deliver an address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...
...little guy looked around startled and said, "Books, why?" "You can't hand me that stuff," I bluffed. "They are books; I'm returning to teach in the University," he explained. Mad through by now, I retorted, "Feels like 'splo' (liquor) to me." Instead of getting hot under the collar the good little guy asked, "Do you work here all the time?" "No," I answered, "I'm a Sophomore in Harvard...
...businessmen, particularly advertisers & publishers, who wanted to find out the preferences, buying and reading habits of the public. His method, adapted from scientific research, was to sample a section of the public big enough to be statistically accurate, representative enough to include day-laborers, skilled workers, farmers, white-collar employes, millionaires, etc. in the same proportions in which they are found in the population at large. Mr. Hurja was interested because Dr. Gallup was applying the same method of scientific sampling to the voting population in a series of political polls. Nowadays Mr. Hurja apparently places much reliance...
...Great is the pleasure," the Dodo began once again, now standing on one foot and loosening its collar with the other, "that befalls me on this celebration of the one hundred and fourth anniversary A. D. (and here he paused looking over to the Dormouse who, though eyes closed, nodded assent) of our beloved author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll, to pay him homage for the joy he has given to millions of people...