Word: tuxedoed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ultimate Gumball. Chewing gum is no novelty, either. Only Alan Silverstone, 35, has made it so. He sees himself as a real-life Willie Wonka. He even dresses the part of the fictional candymaker, donning velvet tuxedo, ruffled shirt, red velvet bow tie, top hat and cane. It seems a bizarre role for a onetime Wall Street investment banker with degrees in law, business administration and economics. But Uncle Al, the Kiddies' Pal, as he thinks of himself, is not just living out a childhood fantasy. The owner of Oakland's U.S. Chewing Gum Manufacturing Co. since...
Only six members of the family adjourn to the dining room a few minutes later. Amy has already eaten. Chip and Caron are going out to dinner. The family hold hands around the table while Annette, Jeffs wife, says grace, and Ely Young, a tall black waiter in a tuxedo, prepares to serve the meal: pork chops, boiled broccoli and mashed potatoes...
...plane in Washington, Carter carried his bags again, but the transformation had already begun. At the Kennedy Center that night, the audience-in evening dress-stood to applaud as the Carter family entered, Jimmy in a subdued black tuxedo and ruffled shirt, Rosalynn in a long red skirt and black blouse, and Amy in a red juniper. With pleased grins, they settled into the plush seats of the presidential box for the glittering, 2½-hr. 1977 New Spirit Inaugural Concert...
...working in union jobs since age 22, will have none of that tradition. He talks an unabashed 1930s brand of labor radicalism, naming as his heroes Socialist Eugene V. Debs and John L. Lewis, and describes his goals for the Steelworkers in the single word change. He rails against "tuxedo unionism" -the proclivity of leaders to hobnob with management-and pledges to reduce union salaries, presumably including the president's $75,000 a year. He wants less noise and dirt in the workplace, less harassment of workers by supervisors. "I'm not concerned with production figures," he says...
...seemed a good idea, the members of the group wore dungarees and dubbed themselves the Tramps. Later, when they decided to give their act some class, they added the second m to their name and a wardrobe worth $70,000. A favored outfit these days is a bright orange tuxedo with purple trim and flowered lapels...