Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House crost, staged the initial House dance, put House athletic teams in the field the first year long before Dunster. It desired House colors and forced all the other Houses to adopt them also. Now Lowell ties have entered the field--they are even worn with cutaway and wing collar on Easter--and more rigmarole is promised...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
Oldest active six-day bicycle rider, McNamara boasts that he has broken his collar bone six times, all his ribs at least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called...
...second was Percy Edwards Quin, 59, of McComb City, Miss. A rustic wit, he was famed for voting more or less as he pleased on minor issues, for tearing off his collar and salting his throat while engaged in debate and for smoking a pipe on the House floor, against strict rules. A Congressman for almost 19 years, he had chairmanned the Military Affairs Committee since the Democrats organized the 72nd Congress...
...unnecessary muddle. For the Western World already has the resources and the technique, if we could create the organization to use them, capable of reducing the Economic Problem, which now absorbs our moral and material energies, to a position of secondary importance." Meanwhile bankrupts and the white-collar unemployed can gather much information, some solace out of Keynes's canny croaks...