Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
...fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks, but I'd rather have some water." A nondrinker...
...moment a rippling movement separated the corporation into those who jumped to the left, and those who jumped to the right, to avoid disaster. Only one man took a determined stand. With his head bent slightly forward in characteristic pose, he applied a deft hand to the collar that shot past like a flash of light. The machine went on; but the rider, out of breath and speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond...
...Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate...
Every Soviet bureau, every Soviet trust in Moscow was ordered last week to cut its "white collar" staff almost in half. Steel Man Stalin thereby threw between 25,000 and 30,000 clerks and accountants out of comfortable berths. All will be given twelve days' notice, then they will be registered by the Labor Bureau (which must keep enough clerks to do the registering) and transported to farms or factories. Five thousand bookkeepers alone will be dragged from their ledgers and set to work on the state farms of Moscow Province (which have been complaining of a labor shortage...