Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago, one John B. Bolton of Philadelphia invented a fabric out of which collars could be made. Shortly afterward, a soft collar was put on the market, advertised by thousands of brittle, frostily handsome young men who stared down at the great U. S. public from streetcar nooks and up at them from the back pages of magazines. It was called the Van Heusen collar. Forthwith, John B. Bolton of Philadelphia brought suit against one John M. Van Heusen of Jamaica Plain, Mass., to recover $6,000,000. Last week, the court awarded...
...larynx, no vocal cords. These had been removed in an operation for cancer of the throat, in their place put a silver tube which emerges from the throat of Mr. Kendrick and is held in place by a neat black ribbon which passes around his neck underneath his collar. He has learned to talk by bringing the sound up from his stomach. The Society was interested...
...list of minor parts follows: The Cousin with an Arrow-Collar Face T. C. Howe '26 Another Cousin with Arrow-Collar Face G. B. Bingham '28 Mr. Elkins, the Undertaker C. D. Gowing '28 His Assistant Edward Newbury '27 Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S. Curtis '28 Jake of the Wrecking Crew E. A. Morrison '28 Bud of Same W. B. Dunne '27 Man with Lantern K. A. Perry '28 Ornery-Faced Policeman G. H. Humphrey '25 Young Dum H. S. Smith '25 A Sailor Edward Newbury '27 Another Sailor A. M. Shattuck '28 Opera Goer...
Every member of the Why-nots wears about his neck a brass collar on which is engraved the motto of the tribe: "Be Thyself!" This excellent precept is understood to mean: "Be different from everyone else!" So great is their zeal that they wear their hair long and unshorn, go without hats in all weathers, assemble to discuss poetry and free love when others are attending an athletic festival, and flood the bookstalls with tracts denouncing everybody and everything...
Turbulence over collar buttons . . . murder...