Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bailey (Commerce Committee chairman), Pittman and other Senate shipping buffs got together, unlaced the jacket. The U. S. merchant marine was to have been confined to the Western Hemisphere; under the new amendment U. S. ships may carry nonwar supplies 1) to all ports in the Western Hemisphere south of 30° north latitude; 2) to any port in the Pacific or Indian Oceans, including the China Sea, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. The President is granted discretion to declare out of bounds all North Atlantic shipping routes (including that to Canada via the Gulf...
Wearing an old blue jacket and forage cap, affectionately nicknamed "Culo de Hierro" (Iron Arse), Bolívar would suddenly break the tedium of a march by challenging his companions to outjump him. He liked to dance with female camp followers around the campfire, would break off abruptly to dictate (in Spanish, French or English) his fast, polished sentences to a secretary. He pardoned his venal aides, refused to feather his own nest, praised his generals unstintedly. He deliberately resigned as Supreme Chief in order to discourage dictatorship...
...heart goes out to the individual caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just a little self-consciously wiped his nose. -The Daily Dartmouth...
...Serrano had won a great victory. But with the politically minded Army excluded from power, food scarce, millions of unreconstructed Republicans, and recovery lagging, observers last week wondered how long his minority of a minority could force individualist Spain into a strait-jacket rule...
...somewhat less exciting by the fact that the pact had been reported ready for signing at least a dozen times before. Indeed, to detached observers the proceedings appeared less like diplomatic negotiations than like the scene in Hellzapoppin, in which a young man promises to escape from a strait jacket in five seconds, threshes fruitlessly around for the rest of the show, and is last seen still trying to get loose, when patrons are leaving the theatre...