Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Stratford Hall,General Lee's Virginia birthplace, for good measure, was placed on sale it looked as if the Post Office Department were in trouble again. General Lee was apparently wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel as there were only two stars on his coat collar. "Marse" Robert, Commander of the Confederate States Armies, ranked as a general, rated three.* What was the explanation...
...Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but I understand they rumpled the general's coat . . . and thus hid one of the stars." Said the wearied Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "If there ought to be another star it is around on the back of the collar. You might try looking on the back of the stamp...
...upon her, rusticated in southern France. She lives alone. Once she had a husband, who died shortly after their marriage. As close-mouthed about her personal life as she is loquacious about her system, she seldom refers to her widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis and basketball...
What made us particularly hot under the collar was the chief's implication that the Court caused the Mississippi flood. That would be a pretty tall order for even fifteen not-so-old men, and it seems to us the kind of thing that no mortal has been able to accomplish since the signal failure of King Canute, hundreds of years...
LORD DERBY meditatively, as His Majesty examines a sea-otter pelt priced at ?750 ($5,750) : ''I once had a sea-otter collar on an overcoat...