Word: vests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your own fun, you are playing for the enjoyment of the audience . . . Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your eye; when you hear them at all, they are already too loud . . . The left hand has nothing to do in conducting an orchestra. Keep it in your vest-pocket and use it only occasionally to hush an instrument. . . Don't conduct with your arms, conduct with your ears...
...wants only four A's for Christmas, you might make a slight gesture in the form of an alarm clock. The guy who is looking for a blond may find that he will cut a much gayer figure in a nylon shirt, a suede or plaid vest and a new hat. All this apparel is filling up a lot of women's Christmas lists...
This rare use of a selective kind of "vest-pocket veto" was apt to ruffle the feelings of many a Congressman, since the House had voted 305 to 1 for the ten extra air groups. But a majority of the Senate was on the President's side and had only reluctantly agreed to the House increase to speed adjournment...
Blackouts isn't without talent of sorts, but it is utterly without cispness or taste. The show (with cigar-chewing Murray as M.C.) is informal to the point of sloppiness, as though the only alternative to a boiled shirt were an egg-stained vest. And as nothing is too vulgar for Blackouts, so nothing is too venerable-one of its borrowed skits helped make Fannie Brice famous...
...melodramatic hunt for evidence, which the German secret service tried desperately to cover up. One bizarre episode concerned a Czarist Russian adventurer, Count Alexander Nelidoff, who said he had documents linking the German government with the Black Tom saboteurs. McCloy plucked a pencil from Nelidoff's vest pocket to take some notes. The Russian gasped in horror, snatched the pencil back, explained that it was a tiny pistol loaded with gas pellets which could quickly asphyxiate everybody in the room. Later, checking with British Intelligence, McCloy found out that Nelidoff's documents were unreliable, that the Russian himself...