Word: tuxedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...homes of Merle Oberon (cocktails) and Sam Goldwyn (dinner) in motion. At dinner, Mrs. Goldwyn's innocent remark, "Why, you're just as comfortable as an old shoe," caused the Colonel to start. Due to a luggage mixup, he was wearing brown shoes with his tuxedo...
Terpsichorean tactics during the past months have spread dissatisfaction among the ranks of the financially unbalanced. Laboring under the excessive outlays for tuxedo rents, steeped ticket prices, and corsages, the opponents of House formal dances are dismayed at the growing burdens of social life...
...Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just as he is staggering out of a bar, still wearing last night's tuxedo-descends his divorced American wife Yvonne, in a last desperate effort to remake their marriage...
Although the pay, and an additional 20 cents for carfare, seemed agreeable, other unpleasant factors were the required wearing of a tuxedo, and, one man reported, dancing with girls "I didn't like...