Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel as big as a four-passenger omelette," the New Republic elegized him, saying: ". . . Most of his virtues have declined ... all of his faults have increased...
...started the Duke out on what is to be an intensive fortnight's tour of German factories, housing and worker recreation projects by driving H. R. H. to the "model machine works" of R. Stock & Co. Taking England's onetime King repeatedly and vigorously by the coat lapel, Dr. Ley proved himself a buttonhole orator, talking loud enough to be heard ten feet away by correspondents above the whirr of machines...
...most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard, or mounting the steps to Widener's top floor with...
...That which will at times appear to you, either by example or by precedent, as the end of the rainbow will be a carnation in your lapel and the comfortable club life of your city. . . . Your profession has no particular claim to distinction in this respect. . . . Our educational system has been too virile in production of men immunized from a sense of feeling of social responsibility; trained in the art of plunder in gentlemanly ways; imbued with the false ideal that the American way means exploitation...
Urbane, affable, gregarious, he likes good Scotch, good cigars, good dinners, Stilton cheese, seldom appears without a white carnation in his lapel. Years ago after making long telescope observations, with a glass of Scotch & soda for company, he used to dream that he was suspended in interstellar space at a temperature of Absolute Zero. Lately such nightmares have troubled him less frequently...