Word: cravateer
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...given a fortnight's trial. Everyone laughed at his huge head, his flamboyant whiskers, his enormous white cravat-at what was later called his "Blowitzerie...
...September morning the liner Paris steamed into New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty looked down on a very neatly dressed gentleman. He wore white gloves and tan shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
With a brand new paper suitcase, in look-me-over suitings and silk cravat, small boys see themselves in dreams returning, rich, famous, to astound the goateed station agent, the paunchy hotel proprietor, the sheriffs, rumdums and soda clerks of their old home town. Last week, Lawrence Tibbett, 28-year-old U. .S. baritone who came to fume one evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made...
...Vice President went on, stamped across the rostrum, a lock of hair flying, his cravat bulging, paused to pound home an emphatic point upon the desk, as his voice rose almost to a shout...
...small diamond stud glittered two inches above the top button of Gov. Bryan's shirt, but no vest hampered the comfortable bulge of his waistline. The General's habitual double breasted gray coat was buttoned, but his blue silk cravat was flying free...