Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something worth while in return, Ten years ago it was a matter of some disquiet. Youth seemed to be attracted into the colleges less by the delights of pure learning than by the fact that the diploma appeared to be a golden passport to the amenities of the white-collar life and to social if not financial advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed? It was obvious that neither the History of Art nor Biology B offered a particularly sound training for the acquisition of "success," and dreadful stories about Ph.D.'s found driving streetcars in after...
...house. And in this Kakemono painting only a few words suffices to express one's feelings, thus in such a large letter, and sometime in "all fours" to make his one arm movement as free as possible. Because I go down on "all fours" to find collar button on a floor, please do not imagine I am writing this letter in "all fours'" too. GEORGE TOKIE OTAXI...
...John Masefield's parents are known, they have escaped the standard works of reference. He was "just born" in grimy Liverpool. At 14 he was not wearing an Eton collar but windjamming on seas high and wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled...
...customary, Tailor & Cutter, London's sartorial trade sheet, reviewed the clothes painted by artists upon their subjects. "The collar seam is incorrect, the sleeve is a catastrophe!" railed Tailor & Cutter at Sir William Orpen's portrait of Architect Guy Dawber. "Alas, all of Sir William's sleeves are wrong this year...
...Vienna, Fritz Mimmler was collared by a policeman as he tried to throw himself out of a window. He explained that after he had five times tried to insert it in his shirt, his collar button had fallen on the floor and rolled out of sight...