Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horwood, 75, onetime chief of Scotland Yard (1920-28). World War I Provost Marshal of the British Expeditionary Force in France; after a brief illness; in West Mersea, England. Grey-mustached Sir William's principles were as high as his bowler, his methods sometimes as narrow as his collar. He did not like the idea of female bobbies. In 1922 he cunningly waved away poisoned éclairs sent to him by mail, soon afterwards mistook some arsenious chocolate creams for an expected gift. He recovered-and succeeded in tracking down the insane sender of both sweets...
...Several weeks ago we had all the details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...
...Division General stooped and gingerly pinned a Silver Star on Chips's collar. Chips, ex-pet of Gail and Nancy Wren of Pleasantville, N.Y., a mean-looking mongrel with the head of a German shepherd and the body of a husky, casually wagged his tail. But things might have been different. When General "Ike" Eisenhower visited the regiment, Chips bit the Commander-in-Chief's hand...
...business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O.'s 5,285,000 members, he can try to harvest votes from A.F. of L.'s 6,100,000, the Railway Brotherhoods' 350,000, the uncounted thousands of sympathetic farmers, white-collar workers and little businessmen...
Children of Mars, a less terrifying and to that extent a less true job, nevertheless performs three important services. By concentrating on a white-collar family, the film makes clear that wartime delinquency far exceeds the chronic economic slum-sickness of peacetime. Even among children of the well-to-do the present delinquency rate is high. Presented in both films, typical solutions...