Word: cravateer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization." His own ardor was overshadowed by his egotism, his thirst for glory and prestige under the Emperor. "I looked superb," he noted one day during this glittering period, "my hair done in thick black curls, my face fine; cravat, jabot, two vests-superb; breeches of cashmere . . . noble and assured carriage...
Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...
...shirt and tie were also grey, the latter a silver grey cravat tied in a Windsor knot. The black spotted pattern of the tie harmonied perfectly with the black and grey of his suit...
...with red, black, and yellow cross-flecked, post-Tattersall waistcoat, apple-green pants, and cross gaiters, blurted out, the advance announcement that the Advocate is planning to strike off a special medal in honor of the "actress" and to knit her a special cherry-red and battleship-grey Advocate cravat...
...golfing, swimming Florida retirement barged paretic Scarface Al Capone, grinning grandly from behind dark cheaters, cheroot and flashy cravat, as he headed for Miami Federal Court to answer questions about a matter of $201,347 in income taxes still unpaid...