Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recompense. Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...player m baseball," took to his bed with influenza. A few days ago, shortly before the season opened, 12 other able players were retired from their lineups with injuries received in play or colds: Wright-stone, Philadelphia Phillies, broken finger; Maranville, Chicago Cubs, broken leg; Grigsby, Chicago Cubs, broken collar bone; Archdeacon, Chicago White Sox, tonsilitis; Eddie Moore, Pittsburgh Pirates, sprained shoulder; Ed Smith, Boston Braves, hit in eye with batted ball; Hauser, Philadelphia Athletics, broken kneecap; Summa and Knode, Cleveland Indians, broken noses; Lindstrom, Frisch, N. Y. Giants, wrenched ankles; Groh, N. Y. Giants, cold...
Premier and Mme. Edouard Herriot were also present, but the former, as he was suffering from a cold, did not speak, but sat huddled in a greatcoat, the collar of which was turned up during the whole ceremony. He, however, remained heroically bareheaded until the conclusion of the President's speech...
...could see from his window, spreading their intricate rigging against the New England sky, belonged to him. Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE IN VENTURE OF TRADING, LOST...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...