Word: cravateer
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...that the social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
...Mayor of the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, was as little known as Calvin Coolidge before the Boston police strike. Foreign correspondents called him ''the man with the white necktie" for, following the international tradition that politicians must have some idiosyncrasy of dress, he always wears a washable white cravat...
...good show, far better than that of many academies better known and more widely advertised. Mr. Tiffany himself, looking a little like the Old Man of the Sea, hobbled round the halls and presented the Foundation's gold medal to a dapper young Italian with a very large cravat, Umberto Romano...
...party had to fight off polar bears, shot five while they collected from the camp a sledge, oars, snowshoes, remnants of the balloon basket, boats, unopened food tins, ammunition, sleeping bag, instruments, clothing, a roll of exposed photograph film, a gold fruit knife, medicines, a white dress-cravat, etc. etc. Then they found a skull, probably that of Andrée.* But best of all they found Strindberg's diary...
...Yancey Cravat, silver-voiced lawyer, dead shot, thespian idealist, came up from the Cimarron, from a dubious past, to decorous Wichita, Kan., captivated Wichita's belle, Sabra Venable, carried her off with him over the protests of her family to help build the new Territory of Oklahoma. They settled in Osage City (a fictitious name), where houses were scarce, water scarcer, whiskey and sudden death plentiful, a man's life worth less than a horse's. Yancey started a newspaper, made many friends, many enemies. At Osage's first church service, held in Arkansas Grafs tent-saloon, Yancey killed...