Word: collarses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The Ancestor" Sargent called the portrait, recognizing in Ribblesdale's magnificent physical presence, his fastidious dress, and in the whole temper of his mind, those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard...
Some time ago, one John B. Bolton of Philadelphia invented a fabric out of which collars could be made. Shortly afterward, a soft collar was put on the market, advertised by thousands of brittle, frostily handsome young men who stared down at the great U. S. public from streetcar nooks...
In three strides, Prince de Bourbon was in front, Backbone close behind him. The obliging gentlemen gasped. First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second...
Shirts told it to the White Collars ; and from every corner of the U. S. over which the Italian flag waves, they came to stand in line at the doors of the Manhattan Opera House, wherein Bernardo de Muro, famed Italian tenor, sang last week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites...
WHITE COLLARS- A good central idea, plus the great middle class getting hot under its white collars over some favorite hokum.