Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street scarcely noted the bill's passage. On the New York Stock Exchange stocks were slipping to new lows for the year. Trading volume dwindled to the slowest pace in eleven years. With regulation a fact, weary brokers frankly admitted that in their fight against a Federal strait-jacket they had painted the future somewhat blacker than it was likely to be. Their business would be different under Federal rule but by no means extinct...
...years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused...
...blue mess jacket and his jokes all in order, Edward of Wales rode down London's Birdcage Walk one night last week to Wellington Barracks to drink a sherry apéritif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke...
...previous bouts with almost ridiculous ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied again at three-all, then at four-all before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion...
...think I would let those dogs think that anything should affect my morale so I would not dress for dinner? Every night for 641 nights (I ticked them off on the wall) I dressed for dinner in a dinner jacket or in tails and sat down in the complete darkness of that dungeon to eat my dinner...