Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week President Hoover's private telephone bell rang in the White House. It was his political secretary, Walter Hughes Newton, calling from the Capitol. Mr. Newton said that the second session of the 71st Congress would adjourn in one hour or less. The President, in dinner jacket, summoned Secretary of War Hurley and together they motored to the Capitol. Such trips to "the Hill" are pure courtesy on the President's part. There is no constitutional reason for him to sign bills before adjournment...
...Indian cemetery of Yellow Jacket, Utah, Lloyd Cantsee and Truman Hatch, Piutes, dug up a superstition supposed to be dead and a squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...
LOVE BY ACCIDENT-Louis Marlow-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). This book's suggestive jacket (by archly suggestive Peter Arno) and suggestive blurb cover what is superficially a rather naughty farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped...
...fifth of the earth's territory and almost one seventh of the globe's population. The General was in ordinary, long trousered U. S. evening dress. The Comrade, a shade more conventional, wore regulation British Court knee breeches, but above, instead of a standard ambassador's tight, gold laced jacket, he wore a coat and vest similar to General Dawes...
Generally acclaimed as the most gorgeous male present (not excepting even George V who wore the scarlet coat of a mere Colonel of the Grenadier Guards) was the Abyssinian representative, black as the ten of clubs. Strutting in a white and gold embroidered jacket and trousers. His Excellency surmounted this with a voluminous black cape, worked all over with dazzling gold...