Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That every aid be given the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants union in organizing white collar workers...
...September morning the liner Paris steamed into New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty looked down on a very neatly dressed gentleman. He wore white gloves and tan shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
From the palace to church, to the City Cathedral went King Gustav V, incredibly tall, hiding a princely reticence behind a beard, under a high-hat, beneath a long-coat, a stand-up collar, a glittering pincenez. With him rode his Queen, golden-haired in buxom middle...
...uninvited guest in the White Court grounds who had escaped the vigilance of the triple guard-policemen, secret service men, Marines. The President called his Secret Service men; they called the local fire department, which removed the trespasser from a high tree, squealing. He was identified by his collar as a monkey belonging to a retired shoe manufacturer dwelling nearby...
...destroyer's boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his mouth, led 500 droning singers and nimble dancers for a sava (song and dance contest) for the amusement of the fleet. Despite his 250 Ibs., the chief danced most gracefully. In a brilliant, colorful fatiguing pageant the natives...