Word: vests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposition is for political effect. (a) It is sectional; (b) it is unnecessary; (c) it is not demanded by the community at large.- Vest in Cogressional Record...
...marshals appointed by the four classes to make arrangements for the torchlight procession have decided upon the following uniform : Crimson dress coat trimmed with black collar and cuffs, black false vest and white bosom. These will be worn by all the classes. The senior class will wear blue pantaloons with broad white stripes at the sides; the junior class, orange pantaloons with black stripes; the sophomore class, green pantaloons with white stripes, and the freshman class white pantaloons with crimson stripes. Black beaver hats will be worn by all, each having the class number painted upon it in large white...
While President Patton, of Princeton, was in St. Louis recently, he received marked attention from burglars; his purse, coat and vest and a number of small articles were stolen...
...order to catch the Grand Army vote.- 2. It is a scheme to lessen the surplus and thus maintain the tariff.- 3. It will increase the present great army of thieves and plunderers of the treasury: Public Opinion, II, 370-3; Nation, 40, p, 172; Nation, 43, p. 48; Vest's speech...
FOUND.- A black vest. Apply to Leavitt and Peirce...