Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until it has been carefully explained...
Edward of Wales set a collar bone last week. The bone belonged to Captain Alexander of the Royal Navy who was a fellow competitor with H. R. H. in a point-to-point steeplechase at Oxton. When the Captain fell arid broke his bone, the Prince proceeded deftly to administer first aid, remarking: "I learned how . . . when I broke my own collar bone two years...
...women formed one morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering...
...nervous, thin little man from Sullivan, Ind., who steadied his chin on his tall, starched collar and rabbited at his lower lip until it bled, was star witness of the week before the Senate Public Lands Committee, continuing its dredging of the Oil Scandals. He was Will H. Hays, who managed the Harding Campaign as G. O. P. chairman, then landed in the Cabinet as Postmaster General, then became "tsar" of the cinema industry, which lofty office he still fills...
...concentrate upon the question of illegitimate children. Plots are hung often upon the query; ''Whose baby are you?" The Bachelor Father was brought to Broadway by David Belasco, who has so frequently been called the dean of Manhattan theatrical producers that he always wears a canonical collar. It deals gently and tenderly with a lovable old libertine who, in his dotage, calls his bastards to him from the ends of the earth that he may be entertained by inspecting the consequences...