Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...that evening, when the peddlers had gone home and the flags were put away, that they found him--Mansley Montebank (too much with the world) impaled on his own umbrella. It had been, of course, a decorous death; he was too much a gentleman to bleed all over his vest...
...just take it easy and don't you worry. You need some money or anything, you just call on me." Johnson did not need the money, but recalls that "the most comforting moment in my life was to see that man sitting there dribbling cigarette ashes down his vest." (To Johnson's children, Rayburn is still "Uncle Sam, the Speaker.") And in 1935, Rayburn got Johnson a job as Texas director of the National Youth Administration...
...bohemians: "Avoid what is called the 'ruffianly style of dress' or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbuttoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. That sort of affectation is, if possible, more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude...
...years of steeping himself in antiquity, Britain's Novelist-Poet Robert (I, Claudius; The Greek Myths) Graves had never been to Rome. Last week, resplendent in a white formal evening shirt, pink tie and embroidered gold vest, Traveler Graves, 62, long based on the Mediterranean isle of Majorca, finally made his first appearance on the scene of many of his writings. To the dismay of Roman antiquarians, he refused to go near the Colosseum or other ruins: "Why should I visit ruins when the shops are so good?" In high good humor, he recalled a fanciful previous visit...