Word: cutawayed
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...showed up in "street clothes," Justice Horace Gray was overheard growling, "Who is that beast who dares to come in here with a gray coat?" In recent years, a dark business suit has become acceptable, though the Solicitor General and his male staff members still represent the U.S. in cutaways and striped trousers. As for Deputy Solicitor General Jewel Lafontant, she has designed a cutaway-inspired jacket and striped skirt...
...story works by a series of comic revolutionary skits, some more clever than others. Perhaps the best is a workers' musical number which Godard presents in a two-tiered factory set in cutaway, complete with ascending staircase a la Bye Bye Birdie, around which are draped the singing strikers. Later, the captive plant manager is forbidden to urinate, until he is so tormented that, irony of ironies, he breaks the factory window and lets fly on the street below...
...fair indeed has its fancified features. Promises, Promises plays to large audiences in the State Fair Music Hall. In the Automobile Building, fairgoers get a glimpse of the trim 1972 models, foreign as well as domestic. Their virtues are purred into microphones by trim Texas models in cutaway gowns. It is a sex-and-power display that, as they say down home, Madison Avenue couldn't beat with a stick...
...name given to his reign when it began in 1926: "Showa," or Enlightened Peace. A month after the war ended, Hirohito requested an audience with General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Allied occupation, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. When the Emperor arrived, in top hat and cutaway, the general offered him a cigarette. Though he never smoked, Hirohito accepted it. MacArthur thought that the Emperor was afraid that he was about to be charged as a war criminal and was there to plead for leniency...
...Westerners, Tubman was a faintly improbable figure in a top hat and cutaway, a stickler for formality who lived in a $6 million, neon-lit palace. To his people, he was a father figure, accessible and gregarious, always ready to hoof a lively quadrille, Liberia's national dance. He sought to present an air of omniscience, insisting on approving all government expenditures of more than $200 and even extending his jurisdiction down to settling his staff's marital problems...