Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some telephone girls sat together and giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other sheets, thus: GIFFORD, 40, HEADS...
...wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache...
...long ago, an enterprising gentleman named Van Heusen invented a soft collar for male wearers, and obtained basic patent rights to the product. Subsequently, he sold these patents to the Phillips-Jones Co., and has received $1,000,000 in royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt...
...mentioned concerns a year and a half ago. Prolonged litigation ensued, which has only recently been terminated by settlement out of court. The Phillips-Jones Co. have received a "substantial sum," and under agreement with the defendant concerns will issue licenses permitting the latter to manufacture the two-piece collar on a royalty basis. The Phillips-Jones Co. continues to hold the exclusive right to make the one-piece collar...
Died. Harry Furniss, 70, famed caricaturist; at Hastings, England. He cartooned for Punch and the men he drew "came to look more and more like his caricatures"-Mr. Gladstone adopting a high poke collar, Mr. Balfour's legs growing longer and longer...