Word: lapel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers has wondered at the sudden frenzy of publishers to jam "all of Shakespeare in one volume" at prices ranging from "only $2.98" to "only $5.49". After assuring you that this is the one book you have lain awake nights wishing for, the chatty publisher takes you by the lapel and babbles away just like a friendly real estate agent...
Newton Victor. Another harness-horse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...
...being friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...
...Coolidge stood up while a veteran of Foreign Wars pinned the first of this year's Buddy Poppies-sold for the relief of veterans-on his lapel...
...five members of the Senior class who were elected this spring will receive free dinner tickets, which may be procured from H. D. Smith '21 at the Crimson Building. Every member of the society will wear two ribbons, pink and blue, the society colors, passed through the left-hand lapel buttonhole...