Word: collared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no work that is more generally sought after by college undergraduates than that which may be covered under the heading of, "Tutor or Tutor Companion." Such work is generally well paid. It is distinctly of a white collar nature; it is very pleasant, and, in most cases, is neither tedious nor laborious. Due to the nature of the work, many people desire it, but the number of jobs in this field is relatively small. The number of men who will actually qualify for it is usually equally small, due to the qualifications that are required from such...
...housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch collar becoming 405 millimeters; the 7 3/8 hat, 187 millimeters...
...sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...
What a master stroke of business it would be for the Arrow Collar people to advertise in Life that handsome Langhorne Gibson, son of Publisher Charles Dana Gibson, seldom appears in public with his neck encased in any collar other than Arrow's gracile model, Kebo...
...bellhop" in a hotel. He is good-looking and of a pleasing modesty--his only virtues--and his "personality," as they say in business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character and susceptible to good looks, wants to marry him. In order to rid himself of girl number...