Word: collared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Ehret had kindly little eyes and a wedge-shaped bald head, spreading out at the neck. His stiff collars, always too big for him, were immense, low and broad; he tucked the ends of his black bow tie up under the flaps of his collar. His figure was square, his legs a little bowed...
Wearing a choker collar that looked higher than ever, Kenesaw Mountain Landis sat down at his desk in Chicago and stared solemnly and petulantly at the 50 reporters who rose to say good morning to him. Without a word he handed to each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle...
...White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour and five minutes, repeating, in front of the 29 famed players he accused of giving and taking bribes, the charges he had already expressed to Judge Landis. The baseball commissioner listened with a foxlike expression. He had on a wing collar and he chewed a derelict cigar. Sometimes he glanced at a figure lolling obscurely in the back of the room. It was Will Rogers, Mayor of Beverly Hills, who refused to sit in a more conspicuous place because "he had been able to keep out of this thing...
...first interview with President Relander. The Finnish President, in all moments of conversational difficulty, turns to the formula of the catechism like those uncles who ask a child what he is studying, whether he loves his teacher, and so on, without listening to the answers. Chin in collar, Marathoner Nurmi stared at his hands...
...Christmas Day, President Coolidge was astir before 7 a.m. Going out on the rear grounds of the White House, he greeted his pet raccoon, who wore his gift, a gleaming collar bearing the legend: "Rebecca Raccoon of the White House." Returning indoors, the President gazed reflectively at the three Christmas trees in the Blue Room, decorated by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John. This was the first time that there have been Christmas trees in the White House since the death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Later the Presidential family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston...