Word: lapeller
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Ellston Barnes took me by my tweed lapel. "The real writers are coming West," he said. There was Rexroth, and a fellow named Kerouac (who hitch-hikes), and Robinson Jeffers, who roams up and down the beach screaming in the night. Henry Miller's America...
...short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest he was condemned to death by a Fascist court and was held in a fortress to be shot as a hostage...
...show up carrying the battered dispatch case used by Gladstone and by every Chancellor since. A few Tory traditionalists wore black silk toppers. Sir Winston Churchill, who attended his first Budget Day in 1901, beamed from his bench below the gangway, sporting a huge red geranium in his lapel...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson was accosted at the White House (where Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield had just been sworn in again) by three news-service lensmen. who hung on his lapel a button inscribed "S.O.D." Its meaning: "Sons of Dunghill," commemorating the January occasion when "Engine" Charlie, fresh from another White House palaver over his remarks about the National Guard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), declined to comment on the meeting, blurting: "This isn't my dunghill!" Quip-per Wilson finally explained last week exactly what he had meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie...
...wise man as he was. The wise man was no longer a Moral Authority at all, but being a wise man he was aware that his former position did not pay nearly as well as the one he had now gained. He still wore a rose on his lapel, but his heart was not in the right place. It shifted continually...