Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes at Arnold Constable & Co.'s Fifth Avenue department store, Mrs. Roosevelt bought the dress she will wear at her husband's inaugural-a grey-blue velvet, ankle-length, with long puffed sleeves and a stand-up collar. She will also wear dark blue kid shoes, low-heeled for a long day on the feet...
...railways and munitions that he found piled up in all the ports of France. Since then he has always been General Atterbury and he likes it. He has a military abruptness, a military insistence on having things done right. His clothes are always faultlessly cut, his shirt and starched collar always crisp, his ties always polkadot. He always dresses for dinner, even on his private car between New York and Philadelphia. It bothers him to see a friend light the wrong end of a cigar...
...time when so large a number of all classes are unable to support themselves, the "white-collar" workers should receive the same consideration as everyone else. This is particularly true of the recent university product. There are already men with dependents to do his work, and ho has yet to demonstrate his ability and value to the community. Furthermore, the very best men in these fields can find employment even today. There are still positions for research workers, and physicians, provided they are at the top of their class. The time for special "unemployment insurance for jobless graduates" is passed...
...greeter was John Cabbage, poet-laureate of New York City's street sweepers, garbage collectors, scowmen, dump tenders, sewage engineers, and white-collar employes of the city's Department of Sanitation. His salute was addressed to, and appeared last week in, the first issue of D S, a new monthly magazine of the department. Like New York's prison keepers' house-organ, On Guard, it is unique...
...still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...