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Beggarman Elmer Thomas, putting aside his Senatorial cutaway for tattered overalls, asked again & again for alms, in the form of a few billions of greenbacks...
...finding body founded under the patronage of King Vittorio Emanuele with cash supplied by an earnest U. S. donor, the late David Lubin. Brain Truster Tugwell, who tousled himself somewhat before the U. S. Senate's inquiry into his beliefs (TIME, April 23), sleeked himself into a faultless cutaway last week and, with a purple violet peeping from his buttonhole, addressed the Institute, which promptly elected him a vice president...
Victor, the Russian valet, stepped back and proudly regarded his handiwork: Sergei Koussevitzky, the best-dressed man in Boston, imposing in cutaway and flowing black cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world...
...eight black-robed figures sank down with gloomy dignity behind the long bench. Duplicates in wrinkled old flesh of the classic busts of their predecessors niched in the walls around them, the eight fine faces peered out through the shadows of the courtroom. Then the crier, in sharply pressed cutaway, rapped his gavel once and announced: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable Court...
...Hindenburg to tell Hitler to let the Socialist family of Ebert alone (TIME, March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced a dilemma in which his past, present and future chief might be said to be simultaneously involved. Last week, buttoned tightly into his impeccable cutaway, he moved about the diplomatic reception with stiff-necked majesty. He alone had ridden every storm of the last eleven years and he is still riding high. Awkward in the formal clothes he had to wear for the diplomats, Hitler sweated and was visibly ill at ease. Deftly Dr. Meissner shunted...