Word: chesterfielded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...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...