Word: tuxedoed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when he came in. Sunday's blackout had taught the tables a cheer, and they were shouting "This is Table Number Six! Where is Number Seven?" when Mr. Carmichael appeared in the doorway and smiled. Housemaster Elliott Perkins walked over and shook his hand. Dr. Perkins was wearing a tuxedo left over from high table; Mr. Carmichael was not. The two men blinked at each other. Mr. Carmichael stood up on a chair and toasted the house with a paper cup of beer, then he elbowed his way through House Committee men and pretzel eaters, and climbed...
When Richard Dyer-Bennet sang at Cabot Hall last week, he wore a tuxedo. He had no raucous accent, no sack of coonskin tales, and his shoes and his guitar were clean. While Dyer-Bennet was less colorful than the night-club hand, he was more effective because he was a musician with folk-song only as part of his repertoire...
...before he left for Washington, the President did his best to catch up on his visiting. He chatted with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith and entertained a group of other political friends with a chile-con-carne feast in the hotel penthouse. That evening he got into a tuxedo and escorted Mrs. Truman and Margaret to dinner and an evening reception. The host: suave, bald Blevins Davis, 46, onetime Independence schoolteacher who became a theatrical producer, married aged Heiress Margaret Sawyer Hill (a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon James J. Hill) in 1946 and inherited her fortune when...
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...