Word: cravateer
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...Henry Ford beamed with health & optimism, last week, as they landed at Manhattan, returning from England, where they recently took tea with Britain's King & Queen (TIME, April 23). Though Motor Man Ford wore a quiet blue suit when he landed, his exuberance was betrayed by a cravat of lavender and mottled green. Cried he: "I'm cocksure about the future of American business. . . . The Presidential election has nothing to do with it! ... Business will keep on being good through the summer and fall. . . . Yes, sir, I am cocksure about...
...first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar and neck...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...
...trunk line from Council Bluffs. He had bought his way into the Illinois Central which Stuyvesant Fish controlled. Now Mr. Fish was a gentleman who tempered empire building with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed all the southerners with whom he had occasion to come in contact. But he made one blunder. He quarreled with Mr. Harriman, was fired...
...Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...