Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no depression in the celluloid collar business. At least that was the opinion uttered last week by H. F. Gilmour, head of Stake Manufacturing Co. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the three U. S. concerns in the business. Reason for his cheer: a 250-doz. order from Africa...
...ghostlincss but strong and alert as ever, he received his callers in quiet. His , hair is slate grey, overhanging eyebrows almost black. His eyes are blue. Only their sparkle and the shrillness of his voice indicate his psychic tension. He wore an ordinary U. S. business suit, a while collar-attached shirt and a commonplace...
...wages of Soviet locomotive drivers and other skilled proletarians will be raised, Stalin indicated, above the wage level of unskilled proletarians and despised white collar yes-men. Up to last week the theory of Soviet wage scales (varied some-what in practice) was approximate wage equality between the skilled and the unskilled. With a mighty tug Stalin seemed to shift the whole Soviet wage structure ?in a direction seemingly opposite to Communism...
...clear lumpy throats, a gangster gunfight broke up the proceedings in an ultrasmart night-box run by a pansy. In the old-style scene, an evening at Rector's before Prohibition was reproduced to the last sparkle on Diamond Jim Brady's shirtfront and Lillian Russell's dog-collar...
...Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...