Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right! For a while. A long while. At first I bought the whole shot. My head got straight; I went to Columbia-after I said I would never go to any of those phony Ivy schools-and even tried a year of law school. I wore a Tattersall vest. I even wore a hat, for God's sake. Not a red hunting cap, I mean a hat. A whaddyacall it. A fedora. My father used to rate me like a New York pollution inspector: good, acceptable, unhealthy. I became a Good...
...wore tan shoes and pink shoelaces, a polka dot vest and a big panama with a purple...
Isaacs alleged this demonstrates that "Mr. Kilbridge was interested in wresting control of the department to vest it in himself. I hope that the new Planning chairman will be able to return the control of the Department to himself and the faculty where it belongs...
Home Dinners. His big production number is a musical setting of the 150th Psalm, which must have been a first for the Copa. Wearing a beaded vest over blue satin shirt, Doc conducts and plays while a thunderous offstage voice intones, "Praise ye the Lord, /Praise him with the sound of the trumpet." Later he reminisces about childhood days in Arlington, Ore. (pop. 686), gives a brief recital on musical spoons, and reveals that his clothes are not hand-me-downs from Liberace's wardrobe, but are often sewed by his wife...
...York openings: Former President Pusey, feeling sharp chest pains, is rushed to Our Lady of Academic Freedom Hospital, where, upon operating, doctors discover his vest is malignant. It is removed...