Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More recently an eminent justice, surreptitiously doffing his wig, began to pen another story, the story of Johnny and his Magic Vest. But all children did not begin to rejoice. In fact a few of them may now be weeping, for last week the eminent justice, laying aside both wig and pen, accepted a portfolio. It was not an author's portfolio, however, for with it goes a title, the Hon. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, newly appointed Secretary of the Navy (see Page...
...with acid the acrid mother-in-law. Regina Wallace and Juliette Crosby also give meritorious performances in a play that has a place in every home. George Kelly has written a more human document than his satire, The Torch Bearers. The play's constant humor gets under the vest...
Notwithstanding Senator Johnson's popularity in certain circles, his chance of securing the Republican Nomination appears a trifle doubtful. Unfortunately he does not manufacture vest-pocket automobiles or inexpensive tractors, and even if he is a farmer, not all voters are farmers. Likewise President Coolidge, whatever may be his faults, has a certain cool stability which California's orator lacks. In fact the latter's most stable characteristic through his long and varied career seems to have the joyous virulence with which he attacks his enemy of the moment. Since he will probably not be wafted into the White House...
Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena carry the Philippine politics more or less in their political vest-pockets. Quezon is a Spanish-Filipino, fiery and magnetic Osmena a Chinese-Filipino,. coolheaded, sphinxlike...
...slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below...