Word: waistcoat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many cigar ashes cascaded down Winnie's waistcoat and whiskey & sodas down his throat...
Each weekday morning Oliver the physician, wearing a bailiff's brass badge pinned to his waistcoat, let himself into a dingy little room in Baltimore's Court House. It was a simple place, filing cases bulging with records of human wretchedness, a medicine table, a first-aid kit, a couch with sagging springs. There he helped unravel twisted lives caught by the law. Some got a sedative, but Dr. Oliver first tried, to win their confidence and get them to talk, "for confession and expression are good for the soul, even better than four tablespoonfuls of aromatic spirits...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...
...Marve" Barrett, replete with red, black, and yellow cross-flecked, post-Tattersall waistcoat, apple-green pants, and cross gaiters, blurted out, the advance announcement that the Advocate is planning to strike off a special medal in honor of the "actress" and to knit her a special cherry-red and battleship-grey Advocate cravat...
Keen little Marquis Kido has long been called "a sharp pocketknife" in the waistcoat of Prince Konoye. With great speed, the Marquis whittled for Konoye a wooden sword of authority-by the entirely unprecedented step of summoning an advisory conference including six former Premiers (including Prince Konoye himself, who held the office in 1937-39). All of them, including Konoye, wanted Konoye. Kido consulted with Elder Statesman Saionji, then reported to the Emperor. Within 24 hours of Yonai's resignation, the Emperor commanded Prince Konoye to form a Cabinet...