Word: jacketful
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...Judas figure varies throughout the Black Republic, according to local artistry and whimsy. In Colonie des Vacances. a prosperous village of whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
...shotgun wedding, Hollywood and television got together last week for the 25th annual presentation of Oscars. It was easy to predict who would wear the pants in the family. Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope, bowing to the cathode ray by wearing a blue dress shirt with his dinner jacket, cracked: "With Oscar 25 years old, it's high time he got married. While it's true he has a child bride, the kid is loaded. In fact, the bride's father is picking up the tab." (The show cost the Radio Corp. of America...
This was the second robbery in three days. Robbers also entered the CRIMSON building last Friday morning between 2 and 4 a.m. They broke into a cigarette machine and took the cigarettes and money, and stold a tweed jacket belonging to Michael J. Halberstam...
...course, dress at Harvard is a fairly static, conformist affair. Zoot-suits, funnel shapes, and one-button California drapes were never in order: it's always been (or at least, for as long as we can recall) the three-button jacket with sparely padded shoulders...
...example. A few weeks ago, we noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window, and we breathed a sigh of relief, still clinging to our recently threatened three-buttoned job. But when, scarcely a week ago, we noticed the self-same jacket draped--or rather, compressed--around the shoulders of a friend of ours, our anxiety was trebly renewed...