Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitilessly on the wide, graceful avenue that borders Sicily's Palermo Gulf. Half a mile away on the waters of the Mediterranean many of Italy's finest men-of-war were riding at anchor. Beads of sweat trickled from II Duce's dictatorial brow to the collar of his crisp white suit as he held forth from a 30-foot-high podium to thousands of Sicilians sweltering below...
...centres. This fact was last week grim news for many a slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...
Lucky the chorus girl who can persuade her wealthy benefactor to buy her a chinchilla wrap, one of the softest, most beautiful, most expensive of furs, also one of the least durable, one of the rarest. A chinchilla collar today costs $2,000, a coat $30,000. Chorus girls should have cheered last week at news that the U. S. chinchilla supply is about to increase...
...entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers and a turret-top collar can make Clark Gable look, sound or act like the uncrowned King of Ireland...
With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...