Word: sackful
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...clothes were expensive, they were also handsomer and of better quality. The uniform of the last postwar era had been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...
...remarked that the Justices would soon arrive, in formal attire. Harry Truman dashed upstairs to change into striped trousers and a cutaway coat. But at the reception, the only person in full formal dress was Harry Truman. (Justice Jackson had put on striped trousers, but compromised with a black sack coat...
Back in the days when the rubber truncheon was standard equipment on a muddy gridiron, football was the sport of gentlemen-mastodons with handlebar mops hanging over their snarling lips. Slipping out of their four-button sack coats, doffing their celluloid collars, and carefully folding their string-ties, an aggregation would roar out of a gaslit locker-room to pull every play in the book, and some still in manuscript. Grabbing moustaches was worth a slight penalty, but the pile-on, the straight-arm, and an occasional sapping with a clenched fist were all "part of the game." For eleven...
...Said one worker: "There is urgent work to do: anyone can see there are no houses; the water supply has broken down; land needs reclaiming; we must have sanitation. And we are building a road that is parallel to another." Explained another: ". . . They make us do useless work, then sack us because it is useless...
When Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly met in Quito last fortnight to name the country's next President, the Conservative majority was all primed to sack dictatorial President José Maria Velasco Ibarra. Conservative Boss Mariano Suárez Veintimilla had passed the word...