Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baron. The judge, however, was impressed. "I congratulate you on your imagination," he told Ringleader Alberto. ". . . How were you able to tell the baron such stupendous tales without ever laughing?" Even Alberto found it a little hard to explain. "He just believed everything," said he. "Even had an asbestos vest made to protect himself from the radiations." The defendants grinned sheepishly and the judge was hardly able to hide a smile himself, as he sentenced Alberto and "Colonel Berthier" to four years in prison, and gave 18 months to "The Chief...
...dovetailed set of plans . . . that is bound to save everybody. Thus there have been waves of enthusiasm for religion as a purely social code, for religion as a distant other-worldly law. and for religion as a sort of snug little hot-water bottle carried in everybody's vest pocket...
...still overwhelmed, but confident small-college President landed in Boston amid a mass of photographers and reporters yesterday and proceeded to disarm all observers. Nathan M. Pusey, replete with class of '28 cap, vest, and tie, seemed completely at case before as large an array of the press as he has probably ever seen...
True to form, cagey Interior Secretary Douglas McKay did a lot of close-to-the-vest picking & choosing before he decided what men he wanted for what departmental jobs. Not until last week, after the other cabinet officers were already on the field with their new lineups, was the list of top Interior Department appointees solid. With the President's approval, McKay tabbed...
...Always the Young Strangers, his autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...