Word: vesting
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...Patience was a fortunate choice, for although the Sullivan music is not so easily remembered, Gilbert's libretto is one of his most amusing. Abandoning the broader styles of Pinafore, Gilbert chose to satirize the aesthetes of the 1880's, characterized best by Oscar Wilde and his inevitable vest-pocket lily. With a sophisticated and satiric type of humor, the opera affords opportunities, if well handled, for superb comedy...
...whole operation is masterminded by J. J. Coveney, the superintendant, who directs the care of the machines and chooses the sweeping routes each night. Coveney, a soft spoken man who oversees the job in a pin striped suit and vest, was born and raised in Cambridge. Eight years ago he was one of a group that inaugurated the night sweeping plan. Since then, he has been coming down to the Yard on Hampshire Street to send the men out and keep track of their progress. There is a kind of camaraderie between the boss and the driving trio; they think...
Arthur F. (for Frank) Burns rumpled his bushy hair, scrawled a final correction on the document before him, brushed away the shreds of Blue Boar' tobacco which littered his vest, and wearily got up from his desk. It was 2 a.m., and Burns, the chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, had just finished the hardest single job of his life: shaping the President's economic report to Congress (see above...
...form of an antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...
...Scientists were on the air with a 15-minute weekly series, each to consist of a believer's own account of a real-life crisis, followed up with a vest-pocket sermon by Lecturer Harry C. Browne, president of the Mother Church in 1948 and onetime trouper with such greats as Lillian Russell and Irene Bordoni...