Word: cuffe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year by year the menswear trade doggedly fights to infect its customers with the same virus of fashion and change prevalent among women. Rare are their successes. Last week it looked, however, as though they had succeeded with cuff links. Hickok Manufacturing Co. (men's accessories) announced triumphantly: "American men have bought more cuff links in the last four months than they bought in the previous four years." Other cufflink makers told the same story: Swank Products Inc. that it was selling ten times as many cuff links as it was a year ago; Krementz & Co. that its cufflink...
Like stiff collars, cuff links went out with the War when a name-tag and a wristwatch became enough jewelry for any man to live and die with. Their return is credited largely to shirtmakers who have revived soft French cuffs (folded back) which require links...
...Georgetown, D. C., home of James Roosevelt, first son of the President, was looted in his absence. Stolen were a valuable pair of cuff links and a watch given him by his grandfather. Scattered about the upset rooms were whiskey, wine, and liqueur bottles, emptied by the thieves during their activities...
...Manhattan City Court by his divorced wife, who demanded payment of $730 back alimony. Pleaded Farley: "I am overdrawn $200 at the Chase National Bank. ... I have only $20 in my pockets, and all the property I have is a pearl stickpin, a watch and a cheap pair of cuff links. I am unemployed...
...such figures as William Morris and Robert Browning in the offing. When Kipling's family discovered what kind of treatment he had been getting at Portsmouth (his mother visited him, went up to his room to say goodnight, and "I flung up an arm to guard off the cuff I had been trained to expect"), they immediately rescued him, took him off to a country cottage. There he met his cousin, one Stanley Baldwin. At 11 Rudyard was sent to boarding school, at Westward Ho!, a new school mainly for boys from Army families, memorialized in Stalky & Co. After...