Word: chesterfield
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...black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively surveying his domain, stood pink-cheeked Boss Ed Flynn. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in gleaming top hat and Chesterfield coat, thoughtfully chewing...
...Henry Jones, "the Poetical Bricklayer," who succeeded a "Poetical Shoemaker." Henry was taken up by letter-writing Lord Chesterfield, but literary success went to his head. He died after being run over while drunk...
...open. Omai dressed in the height of fashion. Baffling British etiquette held no mysteries for him. He was presented to George III. Sir Nathaniel Dance and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see cut) painted his portrait. His manners were preferred to those of Mr. Philip Stanhope (the bastard boy on whom Chesterfield lavished his famed letters of advice on how to behave: "Remember the Graces, the Graces, the Graces"). Only ungracious, hardheaded Sam Johnson growled to Boswell: "Don't cant about in defense of savages...
Danny's father Jim, a good-hearted teamster with a fondness for Shakespeare, had little money, many children. Danny therefore lived with Grandmother O'Flaherty, shiftless Uncle Ned, passionate, self-pitying Aunt Margaret, Uncle Al who sold shoes on the road, read Chesterfield and Boswell. Father and Son traces Jim's decline through heart disease to his consecrated grave, Danny's rise through high school and adolescence to a job like his father's at an express agency...
...usual all refreshments to the Yardlings will be free, 3000 cigarettes, tobacco, and pipes from Leavitt and Pierce and Chesterfield, ice cream from Hood's and drinks supplied by Coca Cola, and Pepsi-Cola, will be distributed after the show...