Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire hotel was bent on pleasing Winston Churchill. Tall, white-haired Lord Hacking, former chairman of the Conservative Party, no common man himself, found that out when he rang for the elevator. An immaculate figure in his perfectly cut dinner jacket, he stood by the elevator gate and watched the car go up eight times, carrying only a waitress with heavy trays. Finally, the elevator boy shouted through the gate: "Sorry, sir, but it's Mr. Churchill's dinner...
Rita must have done some heavy thinking on her own because she collected a quarter of a million dollars for her artistic efforts. Certain of these efforts deserve comment: (1) Miss Hayworth can wear more clothes and still look under than any female this side of a Restoration book jacket. (2) She can get off a wall and into a man's arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood...
...Please Do Something." One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products...
Greta Garbo, the secretive Swede who has been in & out of Hollywood for 22 years, finally came to a decision. She pulled on some slacks and an old jacket, and dropped into the Los Angeles Federal Building to file her first papers, for U.S. citizenship...
...Secondary Hamper. On the jacket, the U.S. publisher compares the techniques that Potter and certain accomplices have worked out to "psychological warfare." Since it is directed against "friends," gamesmanship attacks the very woof of society. Some of Author Potter's maxims...