Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold Onto Your Chairs." Then the Prime Minister peeled off his political jacket and jabbed at his enemies. Some of the jabs: "I want to talk about London's wonderful [war] record-would you like to boo that?"; "The winners cheer and the beaten boo"; "You ask for my policy? I'll tell you-it is to beat Japan first." Talking about the prewar building of 350,000 houses a year, Churchill said: "Hold onto your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise...
Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 76, senescent strong man and ex-publisher (True Story, Physical Culture), was still fighting for a divorce after 15 years' separation from his wife Mary. He appeared in a Miami court, in sky-blue sports jacket with matching suspenders, to complain that the onetime London beauty champion (1912) had let her figure get completely out of hand: "I wanted her to be an example of my work and a credit...
...bell rang. In a great hall of the Kremlin the twelfth session of the Supreme Soviet formally opened. Premier Joseph Stalin, wearing a fawn-colored Red Army jacket and his Marshal's diamond, sat in the last row of benches. The hall was thick with Red Army...
...While the scholars gasped, Miss Dunham shed her jacket and skirt and stood revealed in her rehearsal costume. . . . She did a short tribal war dance. 'I want to go where they dance like that. I want to find out why, how it started, and what influence it had on the people.' Obviously impressed, the chairman . . . leaned forward, and, without taking a vote, asked, 'How about the West Indies...
Major Milton R. Knight of San Angelo, Tex. had just parachuted from an exploding B-29 off the Marianas. His life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...