Word: jacketing
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...children"; and the John Newbery Medal, named after the 18th century printer and bookseller who is the "father" of children's books in English and given "for recognition of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Both awards are worth more than prestige; a dust jacket carrying a Caldecott or Newbery medallion promises a sales increase of more than 100,000 copies...
...AMERICAN PHONY always gives himself away by his colour. There are other hints, of course--Dunhill cigarettes, references to "Bianca" in conversation, upraised sport-jacket collars, to name only a few--but the single guaranteed, dead-to-rights giveaway of pretension and affectation beyond bounds of normal tolerance is the spelling of color with...
...best disguise. When Robert Penn Warren came to Vanderbilt University in the early 1920s, fresh off the farm in Gutherie, Ky., he looked like a poet. A city poet, after the style of T.S. Eliot. Glossy shoes. Handkerchief triangulated in the jacket pocket. Fingers exquisitely laced for the camera. Now, at 75, with over 50 years of poetry behind him-not to mention, a good deal of fiction, including All the King's Men-"Red" Warren looks like a farmer...
Suddenly, the White House console phone with the special red button at Powell's right hand buzzes. "Yes, sir," answers Powell, sitting up at attention. "The boss" wants him. Shrugging into his jacket, patting his pockets to make sure he has cigarettes and matches, Powell hurries off to see probably the only person he has never kept waiting...
Women must wear suits or at least a jacket in the male business world, but Feidorak said those shorter jackets, those neat ascots, and the silk shirts can add a little feminine mystique to the austere society of supply and demand...