Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maitre Lop, serious and simple in his white celluloid collar, black shoestring tie and tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of Samothrace." Beside him were his ministers: one in charge of Folklore and Sex, another with the portfolio of Justice, Sports and Leisure, another of Tobacco and Health. The two most important were the Minister of the Fight Against the Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists...
...Paramount) and Her Kind of Man (Warner) are welcome throwbacks to a better, rougher day in movies. Before Hollywood had adjusted to talk without forgetting all the vivid lessons of silence, when none of the men in power had heard too much about literature, or movies as a white-collar art, and the sinister forces of Decency were still relatively quiescent, many vigorous, perceptive and entertaining movies were turned out. The best dealt with violence and skill-usually criminal-in big cities. Good examples: Public Enemy, Little Caesar, The Crowd Roars...
...face. The very worst occurred to him immediately. Had the great revival begun; at this very moment was everyone else sleeping off the after effects of the new era's launching! Had he missed the first inning of the renascence! The Vagabond shuddered, turned his collar up, and with bowed head, slowly shuffled...
...independent Liberal, Dr. Jorge Eliécar Gaitan, a rabble-rousing labor lawyer, was so far from the elegant Colombian political tradition that he perspired when he talked, mussed his hair, and even ripped off his collar after the first hour. No one knew what his popular support was, except that it lay in the unwashed social stratum tapped so successfully by Juan...
...what they had to say. Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner Eisenhower was called to the phone. "We soon heard his voice saying, 'Brad, that's wonderful. . . . Sure, get right on across with everything...