Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of jobs that will satisfy them. But this argument is weakened by Commission figures that show the need for 1,000,000 teachers and 56,000 doctors within a decade. And the education itself need not be aimed at producing a horde of claimants for polished white-collar jobs...
...auctioneer, resplendent in morning coat and wing collar, said: "I am offered 1,000 guineas for lot 11." In the front row, a bidder merely lifted his finger to raise the price to 1,500 guineas. Near him another deliberate finger went up, and the bid rose to 2,000. Thus calmly and decorously went the biggest art auction of the year, held in London by Christie, Manson & Woods-the world-famed "Christie...
...Bill Jones, the white-collar worker . . . because of his sincerity, hard work, and, above all, his PATIENCE...
Married students escape the hardships of the single. "My wife gives me shirts. She knows my collar size and sleeve-length," one said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...
Last week, wearing his familiar rehearsal outfit-a severe black alpaca choke-collar coat, that set off the whiteness of his hair and mustache-the little cellist himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly...