Word: tuxedoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation unsettling to Business. Secretary of War Woodring even made a speech last week in which he deplored "spending and taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face the graver alternative -depression and chaos." By the time Harry Hopkins arose (in a rented tuxedo) at Des Moines to address its Economic Club, the U. S. (and by shortwave, Europe, South America) was attuned to hear a speech of historic New Deal appeasement...
...past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush on the nights of House dinners is eliminated and some method produced to let the uninvited majority eat at its pleasure, it appears improbable that the idea of the House dinner will be adopted by the other...
...Puritans will celebrate the memory of Divisionals and the advent of the summer tuxedo on Friday, May 20, when they will lot loose pent-up emotions to the music of Ray Keating and tis orchestra...
...Eton-trained, 26-year-old Robert Grant III, Manhattan stockbroker: the U. S. amateur racquets championship for the second year in a row, trouncing Joseph Richard Leonard of Tuxedo, N. Y. in straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...
...Although he has not had a new suit in two years, the Assistant President's wardrobe also includes: 1 tuxedo, 1 dress suit, 1 cutaway, 1 odd coat, 2 pairs of odd pants, 2 pairs of white pants...