Word: waistcoat
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...which she had adorned for the occassion in crimson and gold. She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets. "How do you like this?" she asked. "Dear madame," he replied, "do you see me calling on you in golden trousers, red waistcoat and green coat...
Gold trousers, red waistcoat and green coat...
There was a political auction, as advertised by sandwich men before dinner in the reception room. "The greatest collection of electoral remnants in history" was offered by a hoarse man in swallow-tailed grandeur and a sagging red waistcoat. "The proceeds . . . will be used for charity. They will be donated to the Democratic National Committee...
...William Orpen. For its economy of drawing, its matchlessly skilful blend of rich sombre hues, this portrait was undoubtedly the masterpiece of the exhibition. Sir William was also represented by his portrait of Mr. Goadby Loew, a lean, commanding gentleman folding wiry arms over a double-breasted blue waistcoat. There too was Anna Pavlowa by Malvina Hoffman; almost too slinky, too shiny-eyed a lady for that decorous dusk; Schattenstein's picture of Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry C. Cushing III), oval face, narrow eyes, pursed sleepy mouth; Halmi's portrait of Miss Constance Mc-Cann, a slim...
Borah of Idaho still wore the air of a preoccupied man. The red carnation of New York's Copeland flashed amiably, urbanely. Came Couzens of Michigan and McNary of Oregon, to colloquize earnestly, apart from the hubbub. The long, black coat and white expanse of waistcoat were Overman's, of North Carolina...