Word: waistcoat
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Crowded streets echo "We want war!" Six thousand youths parade and shriek "Death to the enemy!" The Government incarnate, the very front of the people's Jove, places its hand in its waistcoat and replies patriotically "If war is necessary we will...
...Starling had been out quail-shooting and brought back several birds. The President, in starched collar, yellow necktie, leather waistcoat, green mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time of an afternoon. Their days are numbered. The Jews have...
...clothes, the other for coal. Coal & clothes were sometimes mixed and perhaps, sitting on the chaste Grecian steps of Manning Hall discussing the lectures of loved Latin Professor John L. Lincoln with his classmate & fraternity brother, Charles Evans Hughes, he would absently pluck a bit of black dust from waistcoat pocket. No. 12 Hope College is now inhabited by blackamoors, being in the heart of Brown's Harlem...
...requires a naive temperament to follow without impatience the "Hinge of Heaven" plot progress. The girl Sally is supposedly a businesslike per- son but she insists on several hundred pages of futile wing-fluttering before her cheek is "mashed gorgeously" on Richard Clarke's waistcoat buttons. Whatever suspense exists, the reviewer did not discover...