Word: vests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stepped out on a ball park. Last week he reached the total of 1,308 consecutive games, beat Scott's record. Not counted toward his record were Yankee exhibition games and 19 World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...
...Hans Kerrl, Premier Göring drafted a set of laws which his Cabinet promptly adopted by decree. These provide the death penalty for attempts on the life of Nazi officials in Prussia, for "subversive activity," and for the spreading of greuel-geschichten ("atrocity stories"). The new laws also vest in Premier Göring personally more authority to pardon than was possessed by the King of Prussia...
...that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional ?1,000,000 to Mr. Morgenthau's Greek Refugee Settlement Commission until reminded that the Greek Government could withdraw a ?2,000,000 gold deposit from the Bank of England and take other steps. While...
...well known that no one has the prerogative of speaking for Allied Chemical except Orlando Franklin Weber. Allied's president, chairman, master. Mr. Weber, successful head of Allied, vast chemical combination since it was formed in 1920, is a man who holds his cards tight against his vest, smiles saturninely, plays with no partners, keeps his opponents at a respectful distance. Heavy of form, mellifluous of voice, he goes his own way, and has his own way: attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into his con- fidence...
Cordell Hull is a plain man who likes to shed his vest, prop his feet up on his desk. His level brown eyes are more emphatic than his thin, slightly pouting lips. Occasionally he breaks his long, cautiously qualified sentences with salty profanity. A cerebral personality, he takes no exercise, gets his relaxation in solitary study...