Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
...with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...
Cheers for Victory. Only the Allied statesmen were silent. From Paris came the announcement that the A.P. had been suspended from filing any further news from the European Theater of Operations. A few took this as an indication that A.P. might have been wrong. But A.P., hot under the collar and sure of its facts, rushed in to join the issue. Cried A.P. President Kent Cooper, determined crusader for freedom of the press: "This suppression cuts squarely across the fundamental rights respecting freedom of information. . . . Vigorous representations have been made. . . . The right of peoples everywhere to know is at stake...
...year-old Frank Hague wasted no time in gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami...
Back in Washington, at Franklin Roosevelt's regular press conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka...