Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jerk his vest on over his coat...
Having toured 5,000 miles of Europe in his "vest-pocket airplane," the Yankee Doodle, George Kern Jr., son of a meatpacker, retired, returned to the U. S. last fortnight to show the incredulous an air flivver which weighs only 575 pounds, costs $2,100, flies for three cents a mile, crosses the Alps...
...Montreal, Mr. Baldwin prepared to hammer and thrust home his concept of trade unity within the Empire by peeling off his coat and vest before an audience of 800 businessmen, many clad in formal day attire. As his hearers gratefully followed the Prime Minister's example, he began to speak with vivid power, thus...
...steep mountain trail slowly moved a wagon drawn by two horses, each adorned with American flags. In the wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added...
Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...