Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, two days before last week's Weirton primaries, the "procedure" rules came from the Labor Board, Founder Weir grew warm under his collar...
...Hall contained a Library, Mathematical, Philosophical, and Hebrew schools on the top floor, a chapel, and general hall on the main floor, and in the collar were the kitchen, buttery, and food storage facilities. The apparatus and books were replaced by public contribution. An interesting and probable novel innovation for the new building was a lead roof to reduce fire hazard. It was this roof which, in 1776, was removed to furnish bullets for the Revolutionary Ordnance Department. The roof is reported to have weighed several tons...
...regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided to get out and go to the movies instead...
Accompanied by two detectives and a score of newsmen, a plumpish priest in Roman collar and rabat bustled through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal one afternoon last week. More police were waiting near the platform gate. Two nights before, Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. radiorator, had whipped a prodigious Hippodrome crowd up into a red-hot frenzy of approval for President Roosevelt's monetary program. He had also stepped on some very important Catholic toes. Now, still parrying newshawks' questions, he swung aboard his train just as it pulled out, settled down for the journey back to Detroit...
...Karl, bandy-legged legitimized bastard of a Viennese trolley conductor and a servant girl, grows up in his city slum to the slow realization that his father is a drunkard, his mother a drudge, and he himself doomed to serfdom unless he can somehow get himself into the white-collar class. He is almost there when the War swallows him. Vomited out after the armistice as an unemployed veteran, complete with scars and medals, he starves, emigrates to Sweden, goes home to more starvation. Down the long scale of disintegration he slips rung by rung. Three newspaper clippings...