Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bought that yesterday in a second-hand book-store. It contains lectures on Greek literature, the most uninteresting subject I could find. You see, if I did not get an uninteresting book, it would be carried off under some student's jacket...
...smoking jacket is in the G. A. R. fair in Lyceum Hall, to be voted to the most popular student, also a rubber suit to the most popular letter carrier. Go and vote for Billy...
...News wails out from the depths of its aristocratic heart because the brakemen on the B. & A. road wear the Norfolk jacket...
...prepared himself accordingly, and in dress coat and white tie, he went prepared to hear edifying discussions and profound deductions from the data gathered during years of hard study. To his surprise, on entering a room, filled with smoke and men dressed in every variety of costume, from dressing jacket to cricket flannels, the conversation ran on entirely different subjects. "Would Brazen Nose 'bump' the boat ahead of her?" "What chances have our eleven next week?" and the like, were the topics under discussion...
Poor Butterfield was not in his element at the reception given by Mrs. De Sorosis. Although the variety of costume worn on that occasion made his double-breasted jacket less conspicuous than it would have been at most evening entertainments of a like character, still he began to feel that Boston was different from Saug Centre. His boots seemed larger than they had ever been before, his Sunday purple and fine linen seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston...