Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue wool lumberjacket, his American work shoes (without socks). When he returned from the U.S. last year (he had been a track laborer on the Santa Fe near Cherokee, Okla.) he brought Margarita yard goods for dresses, and some silk panties; for the children, dresses, shirts, shoes, a leather jacket. He also brought back some new habits, such as washing his hands before meals and brushing his teeth-habits which he enforced on his family as well...
...could took more like a play-Wright than Simonov, the prize, winning dramatist. Tall and filled-out, with slicked hair and a small moustache, he relaxed in his custom-looking gray flanuels and checked sport jacket. Both smoked at undernourished-looking cigars, spoke through interpreters (though Ehrenburg threw in some French for spice...
...Melvyn Douglas (producer of Broadway's newest smash hit, Call Me Mister) to Columnist Lucius Beebe: "You can't keep the investors off you with Flit or a bodyguard. They secrete themselves around your hotel apartment. . . . Total strangers . . . stuff wads of currency in the pocket of your jacket...
Spencer, tall (a stooping 6 ft. 5 in.), strawberry-blond, and handsome, is a specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek opened his first press interview since last December by shaking hands with the foreign newsmen. Then he relaxed in an armchair. Madame Chiang, in black jacket and maroon skirt, sat on his right; occasionally she helped affable Information Minister K. C. Wu with the interpreting. While tea was served, questions & answers were passed...