Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that 1 had not; but believed it was true. Then he jumped out of bed and ran to his private phone and called the Secretary of Government, Rojelio Zayas Byzan; and said "Rojelio, come to the Palace at once!-No, do not wait to shave or put on a collar or tie! Come immediately!" In less than 15 minutes Byzan entered. (He was one of the seven of us who were never held up by the Guard. Vasco Bello was another; but Carlos Miguel de Cespedes and Viriato Guttierez and others, were not of this favored few.) When Byzan came...
...Vagabond sat apart balancing the thin glass on the palm of his hand watching the streamers of smoke weave their changing patterns about the heads of his friends. He had loosed his collar and the green striped tie was bound about his head giving him an air of Attic dignity enhanced by the sweet serenity of countenance that he so often achieved of an evening. He lifted his glass to his right eye and held it there as if it were a telescope, gazing through its opaque bottom with great earnestness, the slow smile of the contented seer disturbing...
...Manhattan, a Mrs. Novick. 250 lb., bought a railroad ticket for nearby Beacon, refused to get off when the train reached Beacon, rode free to Albany. At Albany Detective Harold Collar found her still obstinate, called a physician. The railroad car was hauled to a siding, the physician gave her a hypodermic injection, took her away in an ambulance...
...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...
...neck, which ancients compared to a shield. (Greek thyreos means shield, and the word is properly thyreoid.) But the thyroid spans the windpipe more like a pair of saddle bags. In most people the lobes can be seen as gentle swells along the sides of the neck above the collar bone. The thyroid increases in size normally and temporarily in boys and girls at puberty, in women during menstruation and lactation...