Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talks to him as though he were an intelligent human being. Duncan says "Get mad," "Act Scared," "Pay no attention" in pantomime with full assurance of being obeyed. Rin Tin Tin has made 15 pictures. A few: While London Sleeps, Tracked in the Snow Country, The Million Dollar Collar...
Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March...
...heir was not "Georgie" but "Eddy." At Cambridge this languid and effeminate prince was called by his fellow undergraduates "Collar and Cuffs" (the present Prince of Wales was "Pragger Wagger" at Oxford. An ejaculation which "Collar and Cuffs" could be depended on to utter in almost any circumstances was "Really!" in a particularly flat drawl. Nevertheless he, the Duke of Clarence, was definitely the favorite child of his proud mother, later Queen Alexandra. Possibly apocryphal but thoroughly typical is the following tale...
...Collar and Cuffs" had been told by Queen Victoria to propose to May and had languidly assented. Some weeks later the Great Queen asked him with some asperity why he had not done so. "Really!" exclaimed "Collar and Cuffs." "I had quite forgotten that idea. Really!" And languidly but respectfully quitting the Imperial presence, C.&C. went straight off to May, who accepted on the spot...
Prudent members sneaked out of side doors. Chairman Pataks, adjusting his torn collar, ordered the meeting adjourned...