Word: lapeller
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...House of Commons looked like a Sunday school class on Mother's Day. Every Liberal sported a red rose in his lapel. On the front-row desk of Prime Minister Mackenzie King stood a huge white vase filled with red roses. Thus was the P.M., recovered from a heavy cold, welcomed back to the House after three weeks' absence...
...headgear, wore 32 assorted little hats. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed in Mr. Herbert Morrison ... he is a Dr. Jekyll...
...stepped a grey, bespectacled man with a grey, correct bearing. He carried a walking stick. In the lapel of his neat tan suit bloomed a flaming carnation. He fussily flicked a speck of dust from his coat, coughed with the conviction of a man swearing, and walked into the Foreign Office's cavernous hall for an interview with Argentina's suave Foreign Minister, Dr. Juan Atilio Bramuglia...
...party. The Duke, dressed in a mousy lounge suit and striped tie, babbled amiably about Britain's coal problem, the difficulties of Continental postwar life. The slim, charming Duchess looked closer to 35 than 50. She wore a handsome but unobtrusive red woolen suit with demure earrings and lapel brooch, made a point of chatting with each guest. Correspondents got the impression that the Windsors wanted a quiet and friendly press because the Duke was job-hunting and wanted no reminders of old scandals. Next day, they got such a splurge of print as they had not had since...
...House "Kitchen Committee" was back from France with orders for postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...