Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point a bearded philosophical angel in a cutaway explains to the audience that the action would look just as logical in reverse. So the music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...
...Congress was 150 years old last week and Franklin Roosevelt, as President, was six. Tanned and beaming after his cruise with the fleet, he went from the train that brought him from Charleston, S. C., to the White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
...Although he has not had a new suit in two years, the Assistant President's wardrobe also includes: 1 tuxedo, 1 dress suit, 1 cutaway, 1 odd coat, 2 pairs of odd pants, 2 pairs of white pants...
...best of Latin American Presidents is at least half a dictator, and burly Agustin P. Justo of Argentina, although he loves to dress in the most correct cut of cutaway, is no better than the best...
...Diplomatic convention provides that when a new Ambassador arrives in Washington, he array himself in a cutaway, pay a formal call at the White House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, who arrived at the White House in a business suit, greeted the President in his office instead of the stately Blue Room, puffed a cigaret while the President chatted with him for 15 minutes...