Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...themselves," snorts Fischer. "If I win, they'll be the first to push for an annual championship arrangement." ··· When members of the American Bar Association traveled to England to hold their annual meeting in London's Westminster Hall, haberdashers had a brisk run on cutaway coats and striped trousers. British courtroom fashions differ markedly from American ones. An eye catching picture neatly captured that difference: there was America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the British Attorney...
...trying to give Daughter Mimsey a first-class wedding. Mimsey gives him a first-class crisis instead: she refuses to come out of the bathroom and go to the altar. As the afternoon degenerates, the bridled father's assaults on the bathroom door leave him and his cutaway looking like Salvation Army rejects. His face a frieze of capillaries, Matthau ultimately makes King Lear seem a whining serf...