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Word: collarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Royal Academy | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

The First Lady's room adjoins the President's on the east. On the other side is the dressing room where stood the Coolidge mechanical horse, and where the standardized blue serge Hoover suits, the standardized Hoover shoes, the tall stiff standardized Hoover collars, will be adjusted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Midge | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Dr. and Mrs. Einstein are cousins. March 14 he will be 50 years old. She is almost that age. Ten years ago they married, after previous marriages and divorces. She is a levelheaded, practical woman who finds her philosophizing husband no nuisance. Said she of him some time ago: "Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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