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Parquette's score came on the most brilliant play of the afternoon, a 20-yard sprint off tackle, with the vest-pocket back again, proving that he can run as well as pass. His teammate, Blackwood, crossed the goal line by the hard route of plunging from the eight-yard line. On both plays vastly more efficient blocking by the guards paved the way for the ball carriers...
...adipose individual with his vest open is going to make an announcement: "146 Precincts. Goodwin--10,072; Bacon--31,089; Curley...
...tightly as he fills his own bulging vest does Sir Josiah Charles Stamp fill his various important posts in London. As a Director of the Bank of England, this pink and pleasant knight is second only in reputation to Montagu Norman. He is also chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a colonel of the Royal Engineers, general treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a much sought-after lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge...
...they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes," "New Sun in the Sky") have been critically commended for their literacy, their agile rhymes, their musical variety and structure...
...Mona no doubt "Momo" is peer less but Paris, jealous of the safety of her franc on the gold standard, resented the implied opinion of francs and French securities expressed by Baron Maurice de Rothschild to Chicago reporters: "Any one who has money would be wise to in vest it in United States dollars or Government bonds. That is my opinion. War or revolution will not strike America, but in Europe, no matter how secure we may become financially, the forces of war or revolution are seething...