Word: cravatted
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...Court of St. James's. London had altered his standardized attire: a batwing collar replaced the well-known high turndown with V-opening; in place of the famed, florid hand-sewn neckties made by an old friend of his mother, now deceased, was a typically British cravat. He explained: "I've an alibi now. I'm a diplomat...
...furnished the volumes he was at any time using, and these lay along the floor, beside his dictionary, his shoes, and the box that contained the sick chicken. A single bare table held the book he had just laid down, together with a Greek newspaper, a silver watch, a cravat, a paper package or two, and some scraps of bread...
...British press also discussed Mr. Chadbourne's cravat, his preference for cigarets v. cigars, and described the malacca walking stick and bulldog tenacity of Mr. Swope...
When a man sprays himself with the perfume of wood violets and puts on a brilliant cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...
Heading a contested South Carolina delegation was National Committeeman Joseph W. ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert, whose illkempt figure (he prefers no cravat, shaves seldom) is a recurrent feature at G. O. P. Conventions. From Georgia and Mississippi, respectively, came the two Negro National Committeemen, Benjamin Jefferson Davis and Perry W. Howard...