Word: vesting
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...floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles a little compass at its end. His collar stands out from his spare neck...
...resolution in the Senate was the baiting of Senator James Thomas Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into...
...remind us that we are awfully poor. . . . But a few minutes ago you told us we were 'lousy' with money. We went into the pockets of Uncle Sam just now and stole all his money, but now you tell us the poor people must put their nickels in his vest pocket...
Lawyer Darrow then adjusted his thumbs for battle, in the armholes of his vest, and twitted Senator Lenroot as follows, for having grown tedious at one point, anent the Court's organization...
Speaking in French, the official language of the assembly, Sir Austen first read a greeting from King George, and then lauded extempore the now familiar "spirit of Locarno."Mr. Baldwin, ever at ease, tilted back his chair and hooked his thumbs in the sleeveholes of his vest. One by one, the plenipotentiaries rose and spoke for a moment on the great step toward peace they were about to take...