Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course," said M. Haine. The man in tweeds put through his call and darted out into the night again. An hour and a half later he was back, with his knees muddy and his jacket torn...
...have to be told that he was going to Washington in behalf of a lost cause. Nothing could divert the Administration from its determination to put the Stock Exchange into a Federal straitjacket. All President Whitney could hope for in the political battle ahead was to keep that strait-jacket from squeezing the breath of life entirely out of the stock trading business...
...Yellow Jacket" is undoubtedly quite different from the usual run of plays to be seen today. Whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage is a matter of opinion. The difference lies in the fact that the play is intentionally unrealistic in the extreme. The scene of the action is the stage of a Chinese theatre. The Property Man (Arthur Shaw) sits off to one side drinking tea and smoking a cigarette. Every so often he gets up with a bored look, to tend to his duties. He throws down a red cushion to signify a gory head, tosses pieces...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...some of the strikers in the elevator. The leader, a burly, red-headed Irishman, surveyed the diminutive mediator, grunted, "You don't look so nice as you did last night." The strikers, it turned out, had felt honored that the government's agent should put on a dinner jacket to deal with them...