Word: tuxedoed
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When you receive an invitation saying "black tie," you are in for a semiformal evening requiring a tuxedo. This outfit is the only species of formal wear which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name...
...Ford," said Louis, "that I went on a leave of absence and haven't been back since." "We talked about the old 'B' building at River Rouge," said Ford. "I didn't know Joe had two brothers still working there." . . . Senator Barry Goldwater's tuxedo had watered silk lapels in a floral design. "One thing about owning a store," explained Goldwater, whose family operates Goldwaters in Phoenix, "you've got to wear the things that don't sell...
...heart had been lighter while he lived, they would have played Didn't He Ramble? as they marched away from the cemetery. But John Casimir was a sober man, and when he was buried in New Orleans, the surviving members of his Young Tuxedo Brass Band left his graveside in silence...
...last year, Casimir's band began playing sit-down music in a club called Preservation Hall. Now, taking turns with other jazzmen of their greying generation, his Young Tuxedo musicians play to attentive audiences who come to tune students' ears to the originators of New Orleans jazz. For many players, though they have spent their lives in jazz, a job at Preservation Hall means the first real payday in a long time. The hall is managed by Allan and Sandra Jaffe, two jazz connoisseurs from Philadelphia, who run it as a labor of love. At the door, customers...
...young lady's debut is merely the beginning, and nobody knows it better than Manhattan's Multi-Cotillionairess Marguerite Slocum, 18. Since her official launching on the bubbly high seas of society last August at a Newport ball for 700, Marguerite has been presented at the Tuxedo Autumn Ball, the Grosvenor, the First Junior Assembly, is yet to be introduced at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, the Second Junior Assembly and the International Ball. Fed to the décolletage with the standard dress for such affairs, Maverick Marguerite set Manhattan lorgnettes snapping when she appeared...