Word: garter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes precedence over all British decorations, including the Order of the Garter. There are 13 other decorations which take precedence over the D.S.O...
...Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...
...haberdashers on the Square, Harvard men lack the courage to venture forth in Old Dame Fashion's latest. This, it was agreed, accounted for the supremacy of Princeton and Yale over Harvard when it comes to setting the styles. Harvard is not style conscious, the Knights of the Garter conceded, and her sons scoff at the new and seemingly "race-trackish" models in clothes, only to adhere to them a year or so later...
...Dead (by Hans Kottow; Al Woods, producer). Ten or 15 years ago, long before he played the muddled cinema director in Once In A Lifetime, Hugh O'Connell found steady employment in that cycle of dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room. Looking back on those days, it amuses Actor O'Connell to recall one trick of his that never failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just...
...Pittsburgh last week, a householder discovered a six-in. garter snake trapped in a spider web. The snake dangled helplessly while the spider skipped up and down his rope, biting at his opponent viciously. After two days the duel ended. The snake was dead. In Burlingame, Calif., a snake and a spider lived together in a bottle at police headquarters without hostility...