Word: jacketful
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...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
...this point, a figure arose from the other end of the counter. Corduroy trousers, a surplus Army combat jacket (over a crew neck sweater), and upon his face the stubby bristle of a cultivated beard...
...Mooney, in chinos and tweed jacket, was sitting in his office at the head of the stairs when I came in. "There isn't much going on right now, since we aren't officially open," he said. "I've been in Cambridge since spring. Before coming here, I spent two years in Egypt and another two in Madagascar. Lawson's my first name, not my last name. I had quite a time deciding what I would name this place. I didn't want to call it the Cambridge Academy of Fine Arts. Everybody around here likes to name their shop...
...course there are the outright examples of conformity. There are the blue suits consigned to decay the first week of the Freshman year, along with a palm beach jacket, some "loud" ties, and a few shirts with the "wrong" type" collar. The accents and the mannerisms take a little more time, but not much...
...than a family reunion. From the crowds that cheered Gomulka through Belgrade came shouts of "Welcome to Poland's Tito!" Catering to the simple tastes of his guest, pomp-loving Marshal Tito even abated somewhat the imperial splendor of his parties. ("Comrades who do not have a dinner jacket will be welcome in a dark suit.") They adjourned to the Adriatic island of Brioni, where Tito lives it up in one of Mussolini's old playgrounds...