Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been at the newspaper bench nearly everybody in Trenton has quarrelled with me at some time. As to Ferdinand W. Roebling Jr., now at the head of the company, he is not only the biggest giver, both publicly and privately to worthwhile things, but he invariably wears a dinner jacket when the Roeblings entertain small parties and I don't recall ever seeing him in "white tie and tails," but I suppose he has 'em. Many of the important devices for which the Roeblings hold patents are the work of his brain and Washington Roebling once told...
There was Wilde, in the days after the peacock blue, the velveteens, and the shirt-cuffs turned over his jacket sleeves had been renounced. There was the gathering in the old stable beside Kelmscott House, where Wilde held forth. "I have never answered letters," he said, "I have known men come to London full of bright prospects, and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters." And again, "Mr. Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." And of course William Morris was there, and sometimes Shaw, and Russian anarchists...
...like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science...
...Pillars of Wisdom to his good, hard-up friend Poet Robert Graves, with a note, "Please sell when read." Graves sold it for £300. Offered a French translation of Revolt in the Desert, Lawrence gave his permission on one condition?that the book must have printed on its jacket: "The profits...
...Peter, Minn., a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane incased in a strait-jacket from his waist up, killed his cell mate with his bare feet...