Word: waistcoat
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Last week a man sat on an Indiana front porch, stuck his thumbs in his waistcoat as is his habit, put his straw hat on the back of his head. Grey-mustachioed, wrinkle-eyed Tom Taggart, owner of French Lick Springs and Democratic boss of Indiana meditated...
...Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of old pumps . . . and sundry other clothes...
Sirs: There are those who, having attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...
...carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn's "Farewell." The orchestra has played it better at other concerts. Some of the players seem merely indifferent, but several are definitely tired; the trombone puts...
...works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...