Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
...maiden, pocket-sized issue went to 4,000 white-collar girls-and used up all the subscription money they had paid in. To keep going, Betty went to a bank (for $1,000), to Dallas Oilman Harold D. Byrd (for $5,000 and a partnership), and to 90 Texans whom she invited to a free chicken dinner. With dessert she served a 45-minute speech, talked 45 of her guests into buying $8,600 worth of stock...
...later Howard Hughes eased himself through a packed aisle. There was scattered applause and, like a seasoned jnovie star, he turned to nod to the spectators. They saw a lank, dark-mustached man in a rumpled, ill-fitting grey suit, his scrawny neck sticking out of a too-large collar. He did not look like a formidable adversary for Maine's portly, assured Owen Brewster. It was because of Senator Brewster, the chairman of the committee, that Howard Hughes was there. For two weeks they had shot at each other in the newspapers. Now their duel...
...soon turns out that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...Connie Mack's bushy-browed face rises like an ostrich's out of a high stiff collar. He could retire tomorrow as baseball's Grand Old Man, but prefers to remain an active and highly controversial figure. Four-fifths of Philadelphia fans insist that he is the greatest manager in baseball; some of the remaining fifth contend that he is a penny-pinching old Scrooge who trades shamelessly on the incorrigible loyalty of Athletics fans. His detractors say that he profitably broke up his great teams of 1910-14 and 1929-32 because Philadelphia fans, with only...