Word: tuxedoed
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...wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while its owner, the wife of a South American diplomat, was not looking. It was said that Lily Pons had lost an emerald. An air-raid warden, in a tuxedo, white arm band and white steel helmet, wandered around the lobby announcing a blackout. "The most individual and interesting performer," averred New York Times Critic Olin Downes, ". . . was the horse...
...Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
Died. Grenville Kane, 89, last surviving founder of tony Tuxedo Park; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. A Manhattan lawyer (later director of many railroads), he helped Tobacconist Pierre Lorillard III plan the 400's baronial super-suburb in 1881. Descended from early American landlords (the Irish O'Kanes), Kane was the oldest living alumnus of St. Paul's School, oldest member of New York's arch-Republican Union League Club...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Pierre Lorillard, 61, tobacco heir (Old Gold), last direct descendant of fortune-founding Pierre I; of a throat infection; at Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Known as Pierre III, he was actually the sixth successive Pierre. A rangy, horse-fancying bachelor, he gave Tuxedo Park's thinning old guard a bad turn two years ago by proposing that the 58-year-old colony be opened to unregistered red-bloods. Snorted he: "What is blue blood anyway? Bah!" Died. Judson Churchill Welliver, 72, confidential secretary to Harding and Coolidge (1921-25); of cancer; in Philadelphia. He once said that...
...Miss Moore, I'm all aflutter," gasped Harvard's handsomest man, footballer Don Forte, last evening, after he had been prematurely selected by the Adams House Committee as Miss Moore's "prettiest" choice from among the Beau Brummels of the Gold Coast. Debonair in palm beach tuxedo instead of shoulder pads, "Handsome Don" wilted under the rapid-fire kisses (Hollywood brand) of Miss Moore as she forced her attentions and the all-College title on the shy young hero...