Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker Myron C. Taylor of U. S. Steel, wearing a stand-up collar which accentuated his dignity, diagnosed the plight of the industry with flocks of facts and figures. The U. S. coal business had appreciably increased its volume of output in the past 50 years (1878-1928), he found, but not by the whopping percentages of other fuels...
...Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal by moonlight. The commentary is gay, sometimes painfully so. When elephants lollop in a river, Fairbanks says: "They wear nothing but their trunks." Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends...
...Philadelphia, William Dion was walking along a street smoking. Ever since a throat operation 22 years ago he has had to exhale through a tube in his throat. A passerby saw smoke coming out of his collar, grabbed the spot to put out the fire. The tube was displaced, William Dion fell choking. A fast car got him to a hospital in time to save him from choking to death...
...pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...
...five of us for walks and she dressed us so warmly, tying woolen hoods over our heads, that by the time the fifth was dressed and ready for an airing the first was nearly swooning, and either screamed hoarsely with resentment or choked in his padded coat and fur collar raised over the hood. As a result of this we always caught chills...