Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped before the bandstand, crowded with notables. A lapel microphone was put into his hand. He pulled himself up on the car's downfolded top and began one of the brief, pleasant little speeches at which he is so adept...
...Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac...
...dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia" graced the left lapel of the coat of each Maconian-for identification purposes. . . . Proud of the distinction of having the world's largest dirigible named for their home city, yes, but no flag wavers are Maconians...
Traditions & Promises. Helped up to the convention platform, the nominee, in a dark grey suit with red rose in lapel, sat quietly by while Chairman Walsh "notified" him of his nomination. When his turn came to speak, he rested his weight on his hands on the rostrum, delivered an address which he put together on the flight from Albany. Excerpts...
...Pondered a proposal to equip all Senators with lapel microphones to broadcast Senate sessions...