Word: vests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young cartoonist, flouted by the parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with Maggie pelting Jiggs with crockery. Throughout...
...social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
...that Japanese inflection. . . . Better get Rabbit Maranville to do that trick for you. Say, there was the life of the party. ... All their players soon were trying to imitate the Rabbit's trick of catching a ball in his lap while sitting on second base and making those vest pocket catches of pop flies. The crowds fairly roared when they saw those flies bouncing off the heads of their players...
...Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals bill pass? Who got a black eye for calling Ben Till man a liar?* The answer to all such questions: "Ask Preston." Friendly and help ful about the gallery, Jim Preston, in his loose, wrinkled clothes with vest pockets crammed with notebooks and pencils, often adopts playful ferocity toward pesky correspondents...
...week from today, Harvard will play host to a convention of college business officers who come from everywhere in the Eastern States. Harvard Square will team with comptrollers; the Yard will buzz with bursars. Indeed, little bursars will learn tricks from big bursars; and vest-pocket colleges will henceforth command the services of their one hired man with all the aplomb of Mr. Apted himself...