Word: waistcoat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...
...three-year-old promptly hauled it out of the royal waistcoat, inspected it solemnly. Stepping backward H. R. H. trod on the foot of an urchin named Patrick...
...Sidney Lenz, President of the American Ping-Pong Association, who 30 years ago introduced the full-hand grip, now used by almost all ping-pong players. Happily watching the matches from a lavish box was George Swinnerton Parker of Boston, decorated by a white goatee and a pique evening waistcoat. He had donated the Parker cup, to be engraved with the name of the champion. Mr. Par ker helped invent ping-pong. His firm, Parker Brothers, controls the U. S. rights to ping-pong and manufactures 640 other indoor games of which Mr. Parker person ally invented more than...
...Walter is 72. He has worn a mauve carnation in his buttonhole every day for 35 years. He owns and wears Britain's finest collection of fancy waistcoats (all with buttons engraved with his initials), a collection rivaled only by the de la Baume-Pluvinel collection in Paris. One day lately Sir Walter with a fresh carnation and a new waistcoat from Savile Row took his usual constitutional along Rotten...
...fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail to look downstairs. For Guerchard, naturally, the location is ideal, as nothing gives him greater pleasure than opening the entrance door with his own key, sitting in a dark niche all night guarding the family treasures, or thumbs in waistcoat, announcing in the great hall with his deep voice. "I will protect you. I am the police. I am France...