Word: waistcoats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearings opened William B. Shearer himself, in a smart blue suit with a doublebreasted waistcoat and a red-striped necktie sat in. the front row. Beside him sat his New York lawyer, Daniel Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report...
...were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special...
More troublesome buttons than most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...
...ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest of us. . . . Let's drink to . . . the black eyes of Julie...
...David, New York chain store clothier, laid the cornerstone of gala headquarters last week, gave dress prophecies. He envisioned men bare-legged from ankle to knee, wearing roomy shorts instead of trousers, porous and mesh materials, vivid sandals, formal attire of silk or satin knee breeches, cutaway coat, colored waistcoat, buckled shoes...