Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assessment was therefore reduced by two-thirds to bring the monthly room rental down to the $12.50 stipulated by the RFC. Because the average rental on "Lung Block" had been about $5 a room, Knickerbocker Village remained a low-cost housing project only in the minds of the white collar workers, who proceeded to fill...
...stud was reminiscent of the goldplated, diamond-studded bicycle he gave to Lillian Russell, who kept it in a plush case when she was not riding it. From the cover of his eyeglass case came the three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time of Mr. Brady's death, War had brought his collection's gross appraised value down to $507,445.10, adds: "Today, Diamond Jim's jewels are being...
...Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
FROM THIS HILL LOOK DOWN?Elliott Merrick?Stephen Daye Press ($2). Sensitive, perceptive, accurate, slight, a picture of rural Vermont from the point of view of a city white-collar employe, broke and out of a job, who finds satisfaction by a return to the soil; a novel made up of short stories, by the author of True North...
...House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker...