Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharply at noon one day last week, a crier in a cutaway coat cracked his gavel in the crowded marble chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. The electric buzzing of voices gave way to a soft shuffling, as lawyers and spectators got to their feet. Out from a break in a heavy red velour curtain came black-robed Chief Justice Fred Vinson, followed by the eight associate Justices. After each had settled into a high-back leather chair, Vinson hunched forward and read from the court calendar: "No. 744, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, et al., versus Charles Sawyer...
Adolphe Menjou, almost unrecognizable without his moustache and cutaway, tracks down the slayer in the unspectacular method of a common, garden variety of plain clothes...
...marshal's office still keeps "one or two cutaway coats to lend to counsel in need." Jackson added: "Apparently, he is expected to be equipped with his own trousers...
...summer of his junior year he sailed off importantly with grandfather Foster to attend the Second Hague Conference. Grandfather, good friend of the Chinese, had agreed to serve for them as a plenipotentiary, and 19-year-old Foster became secretary of the Chinese delegation, wearing a cutaway and going to receptions and paying almost no attention to a hometown girl in hair ribbons whom he happened to meet on a trip to Paris...
...rodders soon took to the textbook-like stories, pictures of engine heads, and cutaway diagrams of new racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...