Word: vested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold mines, he has a large stake in Alaska Juneau, carries a miniature gold brick in his vest pocket. Ben Smith has other loves, including shellac, white pepper and New York Ship-building Co. Last week Wall Street was not surprised to learn that Ben Smith had also taken a flier in biscuits...
...Gabardine Vest with a Fraternity pin Delta Upsilon, with the name of W. B. Beckwith MIT 1936 on the reverse...
...when the mouse outstrips the lion, isn't it TIME-worthy? In 1934 Universal, with its novel Univex, brain child of O. W. Githens and J. J. Shapiro, made and sold more cameras than any other manufacturer in the world, Eastman included. With its new super-lightweight folding vest pocket camera, made of aluminum and with "airflow lines" and retailing for an even dollar, Universal is set to produce 50,000 cameras a day this year...
Wearing a purple-piped shirt open to the waist. St. Francis Robb said, "I'm a revolter. When you have a shirt cut as low as that, you have to have something in back of it, so I wear a white vest under it. Then I put a . . . purple silk sash about my waist. The women all fall in love with it at once and it is the envy...
Parquette's score came on the most brilliant play of the afternoon, a 20-yard sprint off tackle, with the vest-pocket back again, proving that he can run as well as pass. His teammate, Blackwood, crossed the goal line by the hard route of plunging from the eight-yard line. On both plays vastly more efficient blocking by the guards paved the way for the ball carriers...