Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat Gustavus...
Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...pulled out a pistol and robbed him of cash, watch, chain, collar button. Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Skippers Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles and Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through...
...Yale this autumn and another, Oswald Garrison Villard, 11. Two other grandsons, sons of Harold Garrison Villard, a onetime editor of the Nautical Gazette have already departed the usual paths of liberals. One, Henry Villard, is in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps; the other, Vincent Villard is a white-collar man in a Manhattan bank...
Captain Loewenstein, said his servants, had been reading a book, laid it down after carefully marking the place, took off his collar and tie, went to the washroom, vanished. The servants all professed that they felt no such rush of air as would commonly be experienced if the door of the plane, which was opposite the washroom door, had been opened and become a funnel for the suction of the 175 mile gale...