Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...
...Last week Mrs. Graham McNamee entertained the radio audience with a speech, "My Husband at Home." She revealed that he likes blue neckties, loses his keys, his collar buttons...
...live only a few weeks, a trainer must always have a large stock on hand. New, untrained fleas are kept in bottles, for two or three weeks, handled daily. When the time comes to train a performer, the end of a thin gold wire 2 in. long is fastened collar-fashion about its neck. This collar must be loose enough to allow the flea to eat, but tight enough so it cannot jump through. When fleas are not performing they are kept in boxes with their feet entangled in cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities...
...turnups [cuffs] on his trousers and you have turnups only on a lounging suit! The trousers aren't striped. And the vest has six buttons down the front. Gloves and spats are de rigeur with a stick and topper, you know. That turndown collar and four-in-hand tie are all right in a way but with a cutaway we should wear a wing collar and a bow tie. I hate to say it but I fear the vest is not quite smart. It should be cut quite low. If you wish to be informal, wear a sack suit...
...seven children of an Indiana farmer-schoolmaster, he had ambitions to become a doctor. He studied Greek, borrowed a collar & tie to graduate respectably from Hanover College (Hanover, Ind.), taught Greek and Latin to put himself through Indiana Medical School. He secured his M.D.* then entered Harvard as a freshman, took examinations for 17 days, graduated a B.S. in five months. Next year (1874) he became professor of chemistry at newly opened Purdue University...