Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costume-grey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoes-made him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg...
Offensive highlight of the game was Fiorentino's base running. He got on base on a fielder's choice in the third. He broke for second, and the blue-jacket catcher's throw was wide of the bag and rolled into center field. He continued on to third, and as the center fielder held the ball he kept going and scored with a headlong slide into home on a close play. He scored again in the seventh on the same play except this time the second baseman missed the peg, letting it trickle through his legs into short center. Johnny...
...Harford in the fifth. The sailors had men on first and third, when Mayers clouted a short fly into right-center field. Harford made a running one handed catch of what looked like a sure hit, and then tossed an excellent peg to catch the blue-jacket trying to score from third, retiring the side and ending the Navy's only serious threat with only two runs...
...book jacket emphasizes that Miss Howe was not originally a novelist, but a monologuist, spending her salad days barnstorming around the country before beginning as a writer. With two books under her belt, Miss Howe is presumably deemed a novelist. Actually, she has remained a monologuist. "We Happy Few" is not a novel, really, but a series of vignettes, all of which black out with a punch line. Many of these are very funny, and Miss Howe's satire bites deep, but wisecracks do not a novel make...
...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...