Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallery, in Berlin, described the painting in the following terms: "The subject of the picture is about sixteen. He is standing turned to the left and looking at the spectator, wearing a greenish black cloak, a cap of the same colour with a yellow band, and a limp pleated collar. His hair falls in curls over his shoulders, the full light coming almost from the front with a brown background, fairly light in tone...
...students, after listening to one of these men, have been found to exhibit a feeling of uneasiness; a fear, perhaps not altogether unwarranted, that in accepting such a position they will automatically become mere cogs in a huge machine; that they will become nothing more than small-salaried white-collar men, with routine jobs not quite to their liking. Discussion of that side of the question is beside the point; but the Junior Training Plan might well be considered as a means of giving the student an insight into the matter...
...Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
Bartholomew Josiah ("B. J.") Palmer attended last week's meeting. He is a middle-aged man with a scraggy mustache and Vandyke beard. His long, pomaded hair he kept away from his white shirt collar by looping a rubber band about it. His wife, Mabel Palmer, accompanied...
...inevitable, Josef Nosko was soon bombarded with offers to pay for a dog license. His mongrel, Buster, was returned to him. Admirers sent him boxes of dog biscuits, a collar, a mouse...