Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
...Some annual clothing items: three hats at $1.95, one at $2.95; three sweaters at $1.69; three handbags at $1; one $3.95 raincoat every three years; one heavy coat ($29.50), one light coat ($16.95) every two years; four slips fit $1.69; two girdles at $3.95; one scarf at $1; two collar-&-cuff sets at 59?; six bloomers and panties at 59?; two pairs of shoes at $5, two at $4; two "dress-up" dresses...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that...
Focus of all this celebration was a vigorous, severely dressed oldster, whose polished, monolithic head rose above an oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends. At the concert all eyes were upon his rugged figure as he sat, with his small, dapper wife, between the President and the Field Marshal. Though urged, he declined to make a speech. Even when Finland's Premier, Dr. Kivimaki, addressing the great audience, presented him with a laurel...
...Zuppke was born in Berlin, German years ago. Like many good Germans, Herr Zuppke and wife immigrated to Milwaukee. Their son then just two years old. Sauerkraut and weiners couldn't boost young Bob over 150 pounds; he made the Wisconsin varsity, but he proudly broke his collar bone trying. He joined Kappa Sigma. His coaching post was at Muskegon, Mich...