Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once. But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show. Lena still wanders up & down the aisles calling for Oscar, the little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying to get out. By now, however, these whimsies have acquired a kind of historical importance, have become authentic bits of Americana like the Katzenjammer Kids and Charlie McCarthy...
Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway station to the post of censor at the Hotel Continental...
...George B. St. George wore gold tassels. Mrs. John Hay Whitney, sitting with U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, sported her famed, chandeliery diamond earrings. Mrs. Bronson Williams' velveteen jacket was tufted with patent-leather buttons, like the upholstery of a lady's phaeton. Mrs. John W. Stafford carried a Cellophane evening bag exposing her gewgaws. Mrs. Byron C. Foy was completely bareback...
...beside them selections from a journal (1928-39) in the editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity; but from its opening pages onward it steadily gave them...
Fortnight ago, against Chicago, Coach Crisler's boys had chalked up a score of 85-to-0 (even with second and third string substitutes). It was the largest score recorded by a Michigan team since the canvas-jacket days of the point-a-minute monsters. Small wonder Yost wanted his old boys to see this modern machine and had selected its meeting with Yale in which to show...