Word: waistcoat
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...yard, and the bath tub stained a curious yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains all over it. Explained Ratanji, "I cut my finger opening a can." The waistcoat was so badly stained that even the frugal charwoman could think of nothing to do with it except burn...
...special dispensation, the Cambridge bars were allowed to serve until 1 o'clock instead of the usual 11:45 deadline. The hosts in several spots sported evening clothes, one a dinner jacket with a white waistcoat...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
...unfortunate that Sir Austen Chamberlain K. G., who had been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...
Shaved, bathed and about to dress for dinner at the Washington home of Attorney General Cummings, Author Herbert George Wells was dismayed to find that he had left his white waistcoat in Manhattan. All stores were closed. Author Wells called vainly upon the hotels, then telephoned his good friend George Creel, War-time head of the U. S. Propaganda Bureau. Democrat Creel was wearing his only white waistcoat to the Cummings dinner. He, however, called Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee. Soon Republican Fletcher's waistcoat arrived-without buttons. Author Wells clutched it about his middle...