Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among other business to reach the Mayor's desk last week was a photograph of a new summer uniform. It showed a gangling rawboned constable smiling toothily in a pith helmet, a light shirt trimmed with dark collar, cuffs and tie, shorts, golf stockings, and black and white sport shoes. A huge gun hung half way down to his knees...
...when the brisk, tough-thewed, iron-haired ex-banker began to talk business, it was clear that he had by no means lost the spirit which once prompted him to defy the Federal Reserve Board. With a gardenia in his lapel, faultlessly dressed in a dark grey suit, starched collar and pepper-&-salt cravat, he displayed the same earnest optimism which helped make his bank for a few years the biggest in the U. S. Cried...
...Washington, scary Senators protested violently when they saw on Negro waiters in the U. S. Senate Restaurant the collar initials...
Brightest Steel news of the week was that U. S. Steel had restored a 10% salary cut to its 20,000 white-collar workers by returning, after six months, to a full five-and-one-half day week. Just as Big Steel always cuts dividends before wages, so it raises wages before dividends. All that Steel's eminent directors needed now for favorable action on the preferred was conviction that Steel would not relapse...
...President gave his second State function of the season, a reception for the 550 members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember...