Word: cravate
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...families had been long on municipal relief rolls. They were all required to make a substantial allotment from their pay to their depend ents. At Army camps they were issued: O. D. (olive drab) woolen trousers, O. D. flannel shirts, work trousers, underclothes, socks, shoes, raincoat, jumpers, work hat, cravat, belt, barracks bag, two O. D. blankets, mess kit. For two weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened, units of 20 to 100 were to be shipped to National...
...distinguishable by their dress, but now you cannot tell a student from a down-and-out gentleman of the side-door Pullmans. Even the best among them will pay $50 for a suit and $10 for a hat, only to turn around and spoil it all with a $50 cravat and $3 shoes. The majority, it seems to me, don't bother with the expensive clothes, but buy the cheap ones, and second hand at that!" This latter assertion was authentically confirmed...
...Henry Ford, the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy; University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, knighthood in the French Legion of Honor; General Douglas MacArthur, the Grand Cross of the Rumanian Order of the Star; Arturo Toscanini and Campbell Bascom Slemp, the commander's cravat of the French Legion of Honor; Professor Auguste Piccard, knighthood in the Belgian Order of Leopold; Poet Maurice Maeterlinck, grand officer in the Legion of Honor...
Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
Caught crunching his way through the packed Congress mezzanine, grizzled Mr. Tolbert was asked by a reporter why he never wore a cravat. "I still have to find a reason for wearing a tie," he snorted, adding pridefully: "My collar is as empty as a Democrat's promises...