Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That cat over there in the polka dot vest. But just between you and me, I think he's a little square; he's not with It. Let's get the party rolling...
...some reason to believe that Mendenhall will modify his wardrobe before journeying to Smith next July, perhaps holding a ceremonial bonfire for the professorial rags on Berkeley lawn. At any rate, publicity pictures passed out by the women's college show him in a neat suit, with matching vest. It is even possible that Yale's pride may come to rival that tennis-playing smoothie among women's college presidents, Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence. Mendenhall's favorite sport is rowing-he rowed at Oxford, watches Yale crew practice in all weather-but he has perfected...
...Vest Point. In Port Washington, Wis., when John Jushka sent out his Irish setter on the first day of its training as a retriever, the dog came back with a wallet containing...
...lean, balding Englishman with a "British Cake and Oil Mills Ltd." tag on his vest pocket takes a sip of coffee and smiles. "Now we've been getting along fine with our trade unions for years. If a man wants to join a union, and it's in his interest to do so, we let him go right ahead. A "Right to Work" law would be absurd in Britain." A Californian manufacturer behind him overhears, turns around, and the pair are soon in eager debate over their coffee cups...
...even the inflated art market or the evening's glamour prepared the assembled company for the price fetched by Cézanne's Boy in Red Vest. After the last significant lift of an eyebrow and meaningful tug at a vest. Carstairs Gallery's Keller had outbid all others by offering a fabulous $616,000. It was the highest price ever paid at auction for any painting (previous auction high: $360,000 paid for Thomas Gainsborough's Harvest Wagon in Manhattan...