Word: lapeller
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...neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne coat. The cocktail suit, worn only between 4:30 and 6 of an afternoon, has a soft roll lapel in grey, blue-grey, blue or brown, with trousers of worsted in similar colors. Only a derby may be worn with it, in blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats...
Next day, with a fresh rose in his lapel, Johns Hopkins Gynecologist-Naturalist- Botanist-Historian-Professor Howard Atwood Kelly, 75, piously denounced "a certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent to me. . . . Think of an elaborate conference on Birth Control in the Mayflower Hotel! Such a thing would have been inconceivable 20 years ago. And a great social gathering, too, at which details were talked over. Disgusting! ... I have nine children, and 14 grandchildren...
...Westenkirchners waited. Abruptly a door opened. Out strode the Chancellor, hatted and coated, dashing for his Mercedes to keep an appointment. With one long stride Dr. Hanfstaengl was at his lapel. Pale with emotion the five Westenkirchners leaped to their feet, arms extended in Nazi salute...
Jewelers and novelty shops all over the Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring...
...help wangle the steel code. U.S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor and Bethlehem's Charles M. Schwab spent an hour on the carpet in the White House. They emerged rather grimly, refused so much as a word to newshawks. One determined correspondent took Mr. Taylor's lapel, cried: "You'd better come clean. We're stockholders in your company...