Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo in the Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace, the Son of Heaven collared King Prajadhipok with the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum with Collar. Queen Rambai received from His Imperial Majesty the Order of the Sacred Crown First Class, and from Her Imperial Majesty a symbolic Japanese doll richly bedight. Neither Queen nor Empress has ever had a son. Sorrow unites them...
...could never accustom myself," replied St. Gandhi according to a despatch from Karachi, "to uncomfortable trousers, a stiff shirt, white collar, or to tight shoes...
...Lampy had us by the collar, If they'd given each a dollar, Justice would have raised a holler, We'd have paid her dear...
...FOOTNOTE* Depression-conscious, too, is a current series of Arrow Collars advertisements. To the jobless they hint that jobs come easier to the man in a stiff collar. To the employed they hint that the man in a stiff collar is more pleasing to his employer, surer...
...puzzled look in her eyes. The doorman of the Hotel Breslin had never seen a Great Dane bitch before, but unlike the other Manhattanites along the block, he was not frightened. The bitch looked as if she might be worth money; he stepped out and took Her by the collar. An hour later from a Manhattan police station to which the doorman had consigned her. Handler Ben Lewis of Lexington, Ky., removed his Great Dane. He explained that as he got off the train in the Pennsylvania station that morning Fionne von Loheland had slipped her leash and run away...