Word: waistcoat
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...sorriness is pretty amusing to watch. Without their knowing it he has been sorry all along and I for one, have been amused by him. His imaginary figure fitting over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard or official waistcoat in the yard. He is a loveable, tragic figure, walking hither and yon, like the inevitable canine, on the heels of a great idea. That his idea may fail to take tangible form bears little weight; for in the unending pursuit, he has produced some very pleasant by-play...
...ruddy skin has a waxen glow. There is a wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
...shrewd financier who wore a mulberry waistcoat bought on issue some shares in the Bank of The Manhattan Company, then being organized. Almost a hundred years later, in 1893, the mustachioed directors made his grandson, Stephen Baker, president of the Bank of The Manhattan Company. In the same year a son, John Stewart Baker, was born to Stephen Baker. Last week, the directors of the Bank of The Manhattan Company met again. This time they elected John Stewart Baker president to succeed his father. For Stephen Baker they created the office of chairman of their board...
...soon shook hands with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
Just before the first rays of the sun appeared in the east he was divested of his U. S. bullet-proof waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...