Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavyset, spectacled Chinese in a black overcoat with brown fur collar separated himself from the group at the stove, and paced slowly back & forth across the width of the hut. He talked readily. He was General Hu Chia-yi, former Mukden garrison commander. He had left Mukden on the last Chinese Air Force plane to get off in the last few days before Mukden's fall. His force of 500 military police was the city's only defense. What did he think of the government strategy in Manchuria? He hesitated. "Pu-tui-ti" (Mistaken), he said, and resumed...
...high-ceilinged library of an English manor house one rainy day this fall, a bony, white-haired priest in an oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter. From time to time he paused to knock the ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
...would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing a collar button, or in the presence of a crying baby, an automatic piano, a political heresy, or an incompetent barber-then the ancient craft hath its high uses, and its sweet comforts, and its mild and consoling sinfulness. RICHARD NORRIS Conway...
...urged to consider, for informal wear, the advantages of the heavily starched, detached collar*: it does not wilt under studio lights. Bright, patterned ties, like print frocks, are out-and for the same reason...
When the poor brindle beast had eaten its fill, they placed it in the collar to recover. And they named it Arthur...