Word: collars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General Davis (Adjutant General) asked army officers, in a questionnaire, for their views on proposals to substitute the roll coat collar for the tight fitting " choker " of present uniforms. Also, he requested statements of preference as to olive drab vs. black and white striped ties and opinions on the advisibility of adopting blue dress uniforms...
...York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane and his prolific school. The literature of escape may draw the sarcastic fire of the critics, for it is untrue, badly written and inspires false hopes...
That in place of the black-browed man with a secret sorrow and a Byronic collar we have Babbitts and Pinneys "with no brows at all and Arrow collars...
Died: James M. and Jesse A. Ide, pioneer collar manufacturers, at Troy, N. Y. Both brothers died suddenly, within nine hours of each other, each without knowing of the other's illness...
...Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...