Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute meeting last week came tall, bespectacled Wilmer R. Schuh, 34, of Milwaukee, with a white carnation in his lapel and blunt words about the response of filling station men to the Iowa plan. Mr. Schuh is president of the National Association of Petroleum Retailers, which was formed under NRA, includes more than 50,000 of the 170,000 filling station owners in the U. S. Mr. Schuh's principal job since the Iowa Plan was adopted has been to quell price wars among the new independents. Said...
...gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote. To outsiders he might seem a dim. ineffectual visionary, but to them he was a genuine Messiah. With an artificial tan poppy in the lapel of his white coat. Dr. Townsend settled his long chin down on his high, stiff collar, glued his eyes on his manuscript, droned out a fierce denunciation of New Deal extravagance. Only when it came to a remedy did the author of the plan to have the Government give away...
Dankgebet. Next day's ceremonies in Cologne were even more impressive. In an extraordinary exhibition of railroad efficiency German trains had brought an estimated 2,000,000 people to the Rhine city. No sooner had they left the station than they were handed lapel buttons marked "The Rhineland is Free." On every street corner Brownshirts were handing out paper flags by the dozen. From noon on all traffic was halted in the centre of the city. The square before Cologne's lace-spired cathedral was black with Germans, tears in their eyes, singing...
...House a fine new green carpet had been laid. Potted palms and photographers' lights were rigged around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...