Word: chesterfielded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Savoia brought Sumner Welles back to Manhattan from his 41-day mission to Europe. Ship-news reporters found the Under Secretary of State cold, erect, impenetrable as usual, impeccable in a double-breasted blue suit with a navy-blue tie on his soft-collared white shirt, holding a blue chesterfield overcoat and Homburg...
...Second World War at the door of German youth, whom he condemns in one and the same breath as "materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed by the New York Times "a Chesterfield essay. . (which) may become a wartime classic." But whatever its literary merits, Halifax's hate-tirade is a biter pill to swallow after the British government's repeated assertions that Britain fights the Nazi government, not the German people...
...King, who already detested his son and feared his daughter-in-law, their merrymaking was impertinent. A year later George Augustus and Caroline were summarily expelled from the royal household, set up an "opposition court" at Leicester House, where Careerists Pope and Gay and the ugly Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, exerted their strenuous good manners...