Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge appeared at a press conference in the trousers and vest of a cutaway and the coat of a gray sack suit. He explained that he had just-slipped into another coat after posing for a portrait. He let the correspondents know that he favored voluntary consolidations of railways and hoped that reduction of freight rates on farm products might be brought about in that way. He said he had no plans for venturing on a radical program for farm legislation, and was waiting for further reports on farm conditions. On the World Court, disarmament, debt funding, a new Ambassador...
...trousers and vest of a cutaway...
...Raymond Griffith is just about to burst out as one of our chief comedians. He is not cross-eyed, his feet are mates, he does not hide behind a beard, his clothes fit. He is an actor who can eat up a funny situation without spilling it on his vest. 'The Night Club is an aimless burlesque . through which he wears a high silk hat. Though the plot is not vital, what there is of it deals with a will whereby the happy bachelor must marry a cer tain girl...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...
...reporter on the Aquitania rushed up a fortnight ago to Michael Arlen, Armenian-English author arrived in Manhattan to watch rehearsals of his The Green Flat and, ripping open his coat, peered curiously at the young man's vest. Mr. Arlen was annoyed. I explained to him that we had looked for checked vests and pink shirts and, instead, found a neatly tailored quiet suit of blue. We had thought, perhaps, to encounter a haughty stare, and found, instead, a pleasant and somewhat puzzled grin. "I can wear pink shirts if I must!" said Mr. Arlen...