Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inauguration for four hours, threatened to demand a recount of last fall's close election (Bowles won by only 2,285 votes). But the high point of the proceedings was Bowles's rakish appearance in the inaugural parade-he wore a dented grey hat with his cutaway. Said his wife: "Chet has a silk hat somewhere. But he just won't wear...
...board of managers" (directors) used to meet in cutaway coats and striped trousers. They used no first names, but ceremoniously addressed each other as "Mr. Clothier," "Mr. Stotesbury" and "Mr. Morris." This formality extended even to the clerks. They were not permitted to smoke during banking hours, nor did they work in shirtsleeves. They seldom wanted to. The correct young men behind the counters were usually the same cool young bloods who danced at the Assemblies. "Joining Girard," as one employee said, "was like joining a good club...
...hooked the broad blue ribbon of the Garter over her white crinoline dress. Entering the chamber, they were preceded by heralds and court functionaries whose stiff tabards made them look like kings and jacks in a pack of cards. In all this splendor, stubby Herbert Morrison, in his black cutaway, stood out like the ace of spades. But Commoner Morrison, present in his capacity as Lord President of the Council, had had more to say about the King's speech than the King himself...
...program for all affairs specified the type of dress to be worn: traje corriente (street dress) for a few luncheons; traje chaqué (striped pants and cutaway coat) for the inauguration, and traje frac (white tie) con decoraciones for the banquets. By the day before the ceremonies started, there wasn't a cutaway coat or a full dress suit for rent or sale in all Venezuela...
...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...