Word: cutaway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay troup. At their head was Emile Daeschner, new Ambassador from France. Behind M. Daeschner, came his staff all in uniform of the French Diplomatic service...
...Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay trotip. At their head was Emile Daeschner, new Ambassador from France. Behind M. Daeschner, came his staff all in uniform of the French Diplomatic service...
...would continue in office. Whether or not there was any connection, it was coincidentally announced that Mr. Slemp would retire. So the tall man with high forehead, prominent eyes, long nose, large chin, he who stalked through the corridors of the White House Office so swingingly with silk hat, cutaway and cane, will depart thence-but not to a great distance. He is to resume law practice with the firm of Good, Childs, Bobb & Westcott of Washington and Chicago (James W. Good, head of the firm, is a onetime Congressman from Iowa, and Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted, cut-awayed, striped-trousered bondholder do a dance without top hat, cutaway, trousers. The Mole was the size of a pea. It was situated on the chin of a storekeeper's wife. Out of it grew three black feline whiskers and the storekeeper's destruction...
...London-Day, business clothes; for receptions, etc., cutaway, silk hat; evenings, full dress (tuxedo permissible...