Word: collarses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The eminent Teutons, notably Herr Ludwig and Herr Keyserling, who have been foreshadowing the future of this country in abstractions, seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo...
Two years ago Max Phillips, money maker in collars, was annoyed. He believed himself threatened with arrest for violation of the Mann Act. He sued his nephew by marriage Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of United States. He believed an arrest had been "framed" to ruin him. He...
Died. Robert Cluett, 83, one of the founders (1901) and later (1902-07) president of Cluett, Peabody & Co. of Troy, N. Y. (Arrow collars & shirts); of heart disease; at his home in Hubbard Woods, Chicago suburb.
The American Society of Civil Engineers meets four times yearly. Last week it convened at Denver. A local news scrivener described the Society's board of directors: "Coats off, collars loosened, the 20 men plunged into deliberation and piles of papers. For three hours they worked as only engineers...
Composer Emmett never regarded "Dixie" as his ablest creation. He personally liked better his now-forgotten "Old Dan Tucker." Emmett, runaway son of a blacksmith, sang and banjoed in the country's earliest traveling minstrel quartets, barnstorming from hall to hall with striped calico shirts, ruffled sleeves, flaring collars...