Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons responsible for Administration publicity must have been delighted at the way the story of the President's vest buttons went over...
While first-rate "human interest" items continue to pour from the White House, TIME will report them. Example: Sequel to the vest-stud affair is the well-authenticated report that the President's embarrassment was caused by one of his sons making off with the studs, neglecting to replace them in the Presidential bureau drawer...
Billed as "The Flying Baritone" because he now operates his own plane when he needs to tour the country, "Klondike Bob" Crawford gave a Manhattan recital last week, appeared for the first part of his program in a piped vest and cutaway, changed during intermission to bright blue breeches, shiny riding boots and an opened-neck shirt with wings on the pocket. In his first regalia he was an earnest formal concert artist, exhibiting his smooth ingratiating voice at its best in a long sustained aria from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. Worthy also of the imposing Crawford sideburns...
...evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly half an hour, the Cabinet finally had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Roosevelt arrive accompanied by her husband with a row of black buttons down his white vest. ¶To mark the fact that he last week completed three years in office...
...Attorney General on the stand, got him to admit that he had given advice in some of the tax cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge on you, Mr. Margiotti. I can talk to the jury after your mouth is closed...