Word: waistcoats
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...
...steersman and oarsmen, complete in their long baggy breeches, were clad in white with the exception of a black waistcoat. At the rear of the resplendent boat the Caliph flew for the first time his personal standard, a green flag with a white star and crescent on a scarlet center, from which spread a number of white rays...
...current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have had similar opportunity. Napoleon would have edified thousands with a talk press-agented as "Why I Kept My Hand Under My Waistcoat When I Posed For Photographs." Nero, lecturing on "Music, a Flame", would have been a boon to students of Music 4. And the gentle Samuel Pepys, with his eye for insignificant details, could have constructed a series of lectures on British manners and customs that would cram Symphony Hall nightly...
Inconventent as the re-establishment of the "Iron dollar" may be, one source of comfort still remains to us. Think of the satisfying weight and pleasant jingle of the silver dollar as it lies ensconced in the waistcoat pocket...
...ever, exceptionally good, and there is a mildly amusing article on the annoying miscellany of "drives," as well as a Biblical distortion that is funny in spots. On the whole the number is a pleasant one, calculated to "tickle the great American public under the great American waistcoat" but not to split its sides...