Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis last week one Edwin Alson, a deputy Federal game warden, was hot under the collar. He made many a U. S. sportsman feel the same way by describing how advantage was taken of wild ducks on the Ohio River...
...fact never before printed. He loved several women but he was shy of them, loved his bachelor freedom more. In Vienna where he lived his last 30 years he went around in a threadbare alpaca coat, trousers which he cut off above the ankle. He seldom wore a collar, spread his long beard over his shirtfront so that no one would know the difference. Cuffs were a joke. So were socks (he usually went barelegged). So were fatuous admirers on whom he would turn ferociously...
Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...
Sirs: TIME, issue of Sept. 25, under title Austria, errs in details in otherwise excellent article. Bundeskanzler Dollfuss did not earn ". . . the Edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army...
...yesterday a battery of cameras was gathered around University Hall to snap the notables as they emerged from the inauguration ceremonies, and especially to catch President Conant. While the photographers trained their instruments on the south entrance, a slim figure clad in a felt hat and gray overcoat with collar turned up, slipped down the north steps and disappeared from the Yard in the direction of Memorial Hall. Some ten minutes later the newshawks were glibly informed by a grinning Yard cop that the president had left...