Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant display of red, white, and blue lettering makes the jacket of Mary Borden's latest novel very attractive. Hidden away in this jacket is a book called "Action For Slander." Supposed to create an impression on sensation-seekers, this is a story of the hard-drinking, pleasure-loving upper class of England whose mixed loyalties involve the characters when it is a question of the other man's wife or a poker game...
...pressure rises as high as 300 atmospheres. At the core of the mercury the temperature is 14,000° F., on the inside wall of the tube 1,800°. The lamp is served by a water cooler in which the water must be hurried along in its jacket to prevent the formation of steam bubbles. The heat given off is negligible, since the light of mercury vapor slides off the visible spectrum at the opposite side from the red end where heat waves predominate. The lamp, however, sheds enough red light for filming...
With the end of the depression, or for some other equally good reason, men are dressing up more this fall and winter than many a year past: not just the always popular dinner jacket, but more to tails for the real formal occasions...
Across New York's Floyd Bennett Field at 8 o'clock one morning last week walked a nervous little man wearing a dinner jacket with grey slacks and a tennis sweater. Struggling into a heavy flying suit on top of that, he stepped into a green and orange monoplane, soared away. "Where's that fellow going?" asked a workman. "To London," replied a bystander. Grunted the workman: "The guy must be nuts...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...