Word: lapel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
Harold E. Stassen, three-term governor of Minnesota, now wearing a gold duck in his lapel after three years as a Commander in the Navy, has, in three days in Cambridge, walked softly and talked gently to at least 2000 undergraduates, graduates, faculty members, and newspapermen...
...pattern was disturbed by the bells, which maddeningly stopped after playing three-quarters of their tune. Vag vaguely remembered something about a ten o'clock class, and hoisting himself up, he moved his tie one quarter of an inch to the right, straightened the little gold bird on his lapel, and started off with a long-ago-and-faraway look on his face. Floating up Holyoke Street and across Mass. Avenue, F. Scott Fitzvag entered a strangely quiet Yard. Harvard Hall, his destination, was deserted. It is now Monday morning at ten o'clock, said Vag, and I'm quite...
...quite a talk about books and reading generally. At the end of our conversation he told me ... he would like to give me something he greatly valued. Whereupon he unpinned a badge he was wearing, which carried the words 'MacArthur for President,' and pinned it on the lapel of my coat. [Thereafter] when the boy passed my room, I proudly displayed the badge; when anyone else came along, I took evasive action with a pocket handkerchief...
Later Moore moved west, with his membership card, his lapel pin and the White House photo, protected by a cellophane case. Until last week he went over big wherever he went. Then Lion Moore passed a worthless check on a brother member in Salt Lake City, and the police, digging into the past, dug up a story. Items...