Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. We first meet youthful Tony walking up a street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...silk hat shining, a collar of some-what exaggerated height, a cutaway coat tightly buttoned...
...these 700,000, some 12,000 reported at Chicago at the annual convention of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Association. Some came dressed in the fashion of 1913. Some came in the latest cutaway swagger. Some came in no fashion at all. But nearly every one of the 12,000 had something to say and had a good time saying it. Each acted as his or her own Chirisophus...
Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to Washington: "At a dinner of the Authors' Club in my honor, Oscar S. Straus, former U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, told an anecdote about the late President Roosevelt and me. According to him, I called at the White House one day in cutaway coat, high hat and lavender gloves. The President was about to go for a swim and I accompanied him. On the banks of Rock Creek we undressed, but I kept on the lavender gloves. 'Aren't you going to take them off ? ' asked Mr. Roosevelt. ' No, Monsieur...
...Vauclain is a solemn looking man, tall and well set up. He wears a "cutaway " as a uniform and looks not unlike a bishop. He works from 7 A. M. to closing and can be seen by anybody at any time...