Word: lapel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 434 European immigrants who landed in Chile this summer was a plump, dreamy-eyed little man named Edward Sienkiewicz. His greying hair was as long as Liszt's; his hands were uncallused and he carried a cello. But the card on his lapel said that he was an expert on fishing, and so he was listed in the catalogue of immigrants' skills...
...Student Apathy League, Harvard's only side of the road political organization, came sleepkwalking into its second term yesterday. Boasting no boosters, solicitors, or lapel snatchers the apathy league holds together its 3000 odd members by the sheer force of inertia...
...audience had pushed into every nook of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and several hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered...
...Dewey bus approached cautiously. Then, on orders from Dewey, it squeezed through between curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...
...buttons will soon be available, perhaps as early as the end of the week, for people who like to wear their heart on their lapel...