Word: tuxedoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gwynne, who is from Tuxedo Park, New York, and Adams House, is one of the leading staff artists on the Poon. He also has one of the principal roles in this year's Hasty Pudding production...
...goes that Curley came over to Cambridge at the outset of his career and bought a second-hand rich boy's suit from Max Keezer that he were for years as alderman and mayor. Now, you see him mostly in a cutaway; supposedly he once showed up in a tuxedo to shovel the first clod of earth for a foundation, complaining that he hadn't hat time to change his clothes after a formal luncheon...
When we were dressed, we went downstairs and wandered over the stage, watching the scantily-clad priestesses, the scantily-clad dancers, and the electricians. Then a man in a tuxedo shooed us away and the curtain went up. There was so much noise backstage that we couldn't hear the audience coughing, much less the opera...
...being, he would have to keep seated. Vag carefully centered the blotters on the desk top, blew the dust off the top of the inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case, and took from it 12 carefully sharpened pencils. He left the cuff links in the bottom and relocked...
...Osbert Sitwell, the elder brother, (Sacheverell had been left in England) next came on stage, walking with the aid of a cane, and sat down at another microphone. (Mr. Weeks had explained that Sir Osbert had water-on-the-knee.) He was clad merely in tuxedo and looked very prosperous, distinguished, and glowing. (The Sitwells had just returned from Florida, but only the brother showed a tan.) Sir Osbert read some of his poems--character sketches, they are--and proved himself to be an amusing and more lucid poet than his sister...