Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family...
...perhaps I am out of date and in the past 50 years the Eton jacket has sprouted a tail. The latter seems improbable. Things do not sprout so quickly as this in England...
...this attack GE spokesmen retorted that Philco's criticisms were more applicable to Britain's discredited metal "catkin" than to GE's innovation. The catkin's steel jacket served "Is an electrode; in the new tube the jacket is simply a shield. Philco was still convinced that "Proven Worth" is preferable to "Risky Experiment." Neutral radiomen found something to say on both sides, felt that only time and the lordly verdict of the buying public would decide whether glass or metal would emerge...
...basis for negotiation in a quiet morning at the German Foreign Office with Baron von Neurath and without Adolf Hitler. Abruptly at the last minute the morning-coated English and German diplomats were summoned to the Realm-chancellery where they found The Leader lounging in a loose brown jacket behind his great, document-piled desk...
When the trap drummer of the Conte di Savoia seasickened in mid-Atlantic, big, bald, walrus-mustached Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) volunteered to take his place. Resplendent with a white carnation in the lapel of his dinner jacket, Banker Warburg drummed skillfully through three stormy evenings...