Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vorhaus found little case in eating his dinner. "I ought to have a vest that bends, yet can't be pierced. A can of oil would come in handy, too," he concluded. "This thing squeaks something awful...
...preparing for the invasion from Mars," said Lewis J. Vorhaus '44 as he walked into the Union yesterday noon wearing the dress of a Roman centurion with armored vest, sword and helmet...
...start smoking cigars and cigarettes, instead of those awful pipes, and would stop wearing brightly colored sport jackets". It seems that one of the things instrumental in Miss Keith's change of opinion was a Harvard man whom she traveled with and who "shocked" her by wearing a red vest...
...With vest pocket Romeo Roland Young furthering the careers of a lot of hardworking blondes--some further than others--and doing it on the budget of a wife so tight that she sends paper napkins out to be dry cleaned, it takes Anna Neagle to straighten everything out. While combing mistresses out of her Uncle Bluebeard's whiskers, Miss Neagle sings, dances, and acts as well as ever. The word is "Yes" for "No, No, Nanette...
...surfacy prose, an ability to strike off a scene or a portrait in a dozen visual words whose cadence is a part of the mood; the power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair and the shape of their chins, but of seeing...