Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographer must be able to handle cameras varying from a vest pocket size to those carried most conveniently in a taxi, but besides nimble fingers he must possess a glib tongue with which to persuade prospective victims to pose for him. In short, press photography is the art of telling a news story in pictures...
Beneath the shirt & vest of Dr. Chung there beats no manly heart. Dr. Margaret Jessie Chung ("Margie" to hundreds of cinemactors and aviators) was born in Santa Barbara and obtained her M. D. from the University of Southern California in 1916. Practicing first in Los Angeles, later in San Francisco, she acquired great skill in treating the plaints current in the cinema and the U. S. Navy. She still has a practice in Hollywood, makes frequent trips by plane from San Francisco where she keeps an elaborate office in the middle of Chinatown. Greta Garbo and Anna May Wong...
...gold watch he pulled out of his vest pocket and laid on his paper-cluttered desk when Texas' Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week. A small, prim man with greying hair and narrow eyes, his greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered...
...room he had left. Trunks were packed with costumes, photographs, stacks of letters bound with rubber bands brittle with age. There remained to distinguish the hotel room from hundreds of others ready to be abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself. The man who waited nervously for the elevator had the hardest afternoon of his life ahead of him. He was Baritone Antonio Scotti, one of the last of the old-time opera-singers. That afternoon after 33 years at the Metropolitan...
...Heaven, he thought. No place could be so exactly like Lowell House and not be. Even the bells were ringing. He looked down shyly to see how he looked in a nightgown and discovered instead a pair of creased pearl-striped trousers and a handsome expanse of grey vest. He looked inside of the coat he discovered he was also wearing and his happiness was complete. Browning, King and Co. was written in great letters on the lable. Just like the writing on the coat of many colors, he thought. He saw it all in terms of the old Bible...