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Word: jacket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirt, tie, and handkerchief seldom go unappreciated. On the other hand, black shirts are apt to be frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown jacket with gray trousers!" "Ploppy and unimaginative." Thumbs-down is the high sign on derbies and corduroy pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

...game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat for chilly evenings, camera & films, light, ankle-high walking boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...stomach, whistling hoydenishly, spitting out fruit skins, wriggling her hips. Most effective scene was when she read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Carmen | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...special dispensation, the Cambridge bars were allowed to serve until 1 o'clock instead of the usual 11:45 deadline. The hosts in several spots sported evening clothes, one a dinner jacket with a white waistcoat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 23, 1935 | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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