Word: waistcoat
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...Colonial Office room overlooking Westminster Abbey. Dressed in a neat, dark, double-breasted suit, with blue & white striped shirt and stiff collar, he did not at first glance look like a man who had just flown in from the jungle. But there was a brown sweater under his waistcoat-a concession to chilly London-his 6-ft. frame was down to 147 Ibs., and his slicked-back hair was greyer...
...sunny June evening in the hectic '30s. In his Westminster house, Beverley Nichols, man of letters, was arraying himself in exquisite evening dress: "Tails by Lesley and Roberts in Hanover Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren...
London's Sunday Express reported that King George VI had a new outdoor item in his wardrobe: an electrically heated waistcoat, made of khaki silk, ribbed with wires which feed from a pocket battery...
...fell dead, another lay mortally wounded, a third was stretched on the floor seriously hurt, while a fourth bullet snapped a waistcoat button off a key witness. Spectators dived under benches and hid behind chairs as Boris scattered 20 more shots about the courtroom. When both guns were empty, he paused for a moment to reload. He fired two more shots. Then the touchy fellow aimed a third at his own temple and pulled the trigger...
...brave"-and by the Whigs as: "The impudence of some men sticks at nothing." Even the Tories wondered what they had gotten hold of when "that damned bumptious Jew boy" invaded their circles "in a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band . . . scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles . . . white gloves with jeweled rings outside them . . . well-oiled black ringlets touching his shoulders...