Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hecht, Hollywood-Broadway literary swashbuckler, gave the Manhattan press the inside dope on how he buckles down to work for the cinema. "I'm a Hollywood writer," he explained. "So I put on a sports jacket, and take off my brain...
...White Jacket can stay on this heavy track," said somebody else, "but he's only won one beastly little race." "You just can't ignore Fast & Fair," said another...
...remembered the last semester. It had been successful, he felt. He had run through his finals with case-well, without too much trouble. And the future...It would be even better. The summer would be long, difficult perhaps... Vag noticed the ruptured ducks and the worn leather flight jacket. No, he wasn't alone...
...Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps why a striped silk shirt did not pass for a formal jacket at High Table...
...feast days," says Maynard, "he was quite likely to show himself in church with a jacket over his cassock and his biretta cocked on one side and with a lay-brother who had been told to keep brushing...