Word: jacketed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
Wearing a sport jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, and carrying a big package ("It's my old lady's birthday"), Larry bounced into the studio first. When "the old lady" showed up, her cued-in lyrics in hand, they went to work. Larry had had a bit of stock-company experience in the past year or two, but Mary wasn't too sure of his voice: "It hasn't settled enough for anyone to know what it is really like. But he can carry a tune . . ." After three hours of coaching, needling and playbacks, they finished...
...June. Symington, testifying before a Senate committee the day after MacArthur's communiqué, said that "we ought to try and give present controls more chance and get a little clearer view of exactly what it is that the Defense Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button on the much-talked-about "phantom orders"-which were supposed to put machine-tool factories to work on $750 million worth...
...prisoner, who was carrying a .25 caliber automatic, looked and was dressed like a man. But to the cops' astonishment, the prisoner not only turned out to be a woman, but a person well known and respected in the neighborhood. The prisoner, wearing a coarse red jacket, and a stocking cap over a mannish bob, proved to be Dr. Nancy D. Campbell, 43, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of Yale's Medical School and for the past 14 years a prominent Santa Fe physician...
...Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...