Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands would probably approve the neat working greys and baseball cap. Not so many would take to the new dress whites (see cut), which some sour old regulars thought would look fine on soda jerks. Best-looking of the lot were the dress blues with battle jacket and overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
...King would have liked his ministers and gentlemen to wear their state uniforms of red & gold with white doeskin breeches, white silk stockings and buckled shoes. But the uniforms cost $500 each, and Labor is in power. The invitations read: "Dinner jacket or day dress...
...sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...
...When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could not stay aboard the PC. I had cast my lot with these men when we set out for the shore, and this was no time to desert. I put on my jacket, buckled on my belt, and shouldered my pack...
Button's has already spent $20,000, expect to spend at least $40,000 by Christmas for advertising. The ads featured the well-endowed author and the well-endowed ship's figurehead printed on the book's dust jacket. (The New York Times balked on one ad until one sixty-fourth of an inch was erased from the figurehead's bosom...