Word: cutaway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before a socialite audience in Boston's little Peabody Playhouse strode tall, slender Francis Grover Cleveland, 29, son of Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company...
...requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People crowded around to see if it was human or mechanical* Boy and Sea Scouts made models for the Fisher Body Guild. A cutaway Buick motor, electrically driven, revealed the working of pistons and valves. By every General Motors car was a shiny blower to demonstrate the actual workings of Fisher draft control. On every floor, in every corner, was testimony to the desperate drive for business which autodom will make this year...
...gambling casinos of France the managers tucked up the tails of their cutaway coats, counted the kitties, made their reports to discouraged stockholders last week. It has been a poor season. Deauville, Le Touquet, Aix, Biarritz, Vichy and Cannes all reported losses averaging from 25% to 66% of their 1931 income. There was only one bright spot. Fifty years ago when nearby Deauville contained nothing but shrimp fishermen and Norman cider makers, Trouville was a fashionable resort. This year there were in Trouville enough holiday makers who could no longer afford Deauville prices to jack its casino profits from...
...high-hatted entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
Tenor Althouse sang first. He wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still...