Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeps to its melancholy mourning garb of black suit and shiny topper. All but 29 Etonians must throughout the year observe a number of strict rules: they must leave unbuttoned the bottom waistcoat button, (and in after life they usually continue to do so). They must walk, with coat collar turned up, on only one side of the town streets. They may not carry an umbrella rolled up. The 29 leaders of the schools, the "Pops," however, are permitted proudly to exhibit the insignia of their position at all times: a boutonniere, a tightly rolled umbrella, patent leather shoes...
Portentously the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, General Yvon Dubail, approached President Doumer bearing the red cordon and Grand Collar of the Legion of Honor, a collar made of 15 gold medallions, 13 of them inscribed with the name of a President of France...
...Monsieur le President," said General Dubail, bestowing the cordon and collar on M. Doumer, "we recognize you as Grand Master of the Legion of Honor...
...more. Conceived by the Emperor Napoleon, the Legion of Honor is French honor incarnate?and to the Latin honor is all. As a supreme honor to Emperor Napoleon the original Grand Collar reposes in his tomb. The President of France wears only a duplicate. Man can do no more...
From within the aluminum ball two men peered through port windows at the endless blue vacancy about them. The taller of the two, gawky, long-haired, bespectacled, clad in rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were...