Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slipper & Smoking Jacket. Persons' office looks more like a den (a tiger skin, two mounted bonefish, his two-starred major general's flag) than a command post of Government. There he operates with a sort of slipper-and-smoking-jacket informality. He still makes his own telephone calls to Congressmen; no Senator is ever kept hanging on the wire by a secretary. He takes virtually every incoming call ("When I get to Arlington National Cemetery," he sighs, "I'll stop taking them"), even encourages the last little argument, sometimes past the point of productivity. To Persons...
...steam in. Everybody trapped in room and can't see. I crawl on floor to get out. Butler and McKay right where collision is. Nobody see them anywhere. Joe Mora try to climb out porthole and pull self on deck. He fall in water. Everybody throw him life jacket, but I don't see him no more." Total dead: four Valchem seamen...
...arrived six months later, and, with the King's reluctant permission, set up Protestant missions, devised a Hawaiian alphabet, soon printed a speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...
...poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small boy Travis (Glynn Turman), whose main problem is to be first...
...know where people get this idea I'm so sinister," says Lehrer. "They have this idea I'm a lot older than I am--that could be the record jacket, of course--or 'He's not at all the way he sounds.' It's not that I'm that raffish. Perfectly nice people joke this...