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  • Thumbnail for Waistcoat
    front waistcoat pocket, with the watch on a watch chain threaded through a buttonhole. Sometimes an extra hole was made in line with the pockets for this...
    29 KB (3,554 words) - 03:10, 26 February 2024
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    bullet inside him, "I do not mind it any more than if it were in my waistcoat pocket." The shooter, John Schrank, initially pleaded guilty to the charge...
    27 KB (2,826 words) - 22:59, 11 April 2024
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    watches, were used by the military. Pocket watches generally have an attached chain to allow them to be secured to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop, and to prevent...
    30 KB (3,773 words) - 16:25, 12 May 2024
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    has it that before the voyage, John Lawrence left the jewel in his waistcoat pocket when it was sent to be laundered, and was most grateful when it was...
    57 KB (6,725 words) - 03:59, 2 June 2024
  • to keep the price down, and also encouraged small, cheap pocket (and even waistcoat pocket) editions. By 1911 sales were at an annual average of 13,500...
    29 KB (3,783 words) - 22:10, 14 January 2024
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    keys. A watch pocket or fob pocket is a small pocket designed to hold a pocket watch, sometimes found in men's trousers and waistcoats and in traditional...
    10 KB (967 words) - 05:57, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bull Moose Party
    Roosevelt would say: "I do not mind it any more than if it were in my waistcoat pocket". Both Taft and Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson suspended their own...
    51 KB (5,266 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Morning dress
    coat, waistcoat, and formal trousers, and an appropriate gown for women. Men may also wear a popular variant where all parts (morning coat, waistcoat and...
    45 KB (5,216 words) - 21:59, 24 March 2024
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    physicist Antoine Becquerel carried a small ampoule of radium in his waistcoat pocket for six hours and reported that his skin became ulcerated. Pierre and...
    67 KB (7,377 words) - 14:28, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theodore Roosevelt
    about the bullet, "I do not mind it any more than if it were in my waistcoat-pocket." As a reward, Roosevelt sent Schrank's gun to Martin, along with the...
    217 KB (24,557 words) - 17:37, 8 June 2024
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    Suit (section Waistcoats)
    1970s onwards. A pocket watch on a chain, one end of which is inserted through a middle buttonhole, is often worn with a waistcoat; otherwise, since...
    54 KB (7,235 words) - 06:20, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karl Baedeker
    filling a waistcoat pocket with a supply of peas. After every twenty steps, he had transferred a pea from that pocket to his trouser pocket." On descending...
    19 KB (2,708 words) - 21:51, 6 March 2024
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    fronts, skirts, pocket flaps, and cuffs". It would have been worn under a full-skirted coat with matching breeches. The parts of the waistcoat that would show...
    9 KB (1,075 words) - 13:21, 13 August 2023
  • "Becquerel burn". In 1901, Henri Becquerel had placed a tube of radium in a waistcoat pocket where it had remained for several hours; a week or two after which...
    38 KB (4,460 words) - 01:06, 14 July 2023
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    Black tie (section Waistcoat)
    turndown collar and link cuffs, a black bow tie, typically an evening waistcoat or a cummerbund, and black patent leather dress shoes or court pumps....
    68 KB (7,808 words) - 21:48, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
    in Cecil the other eye did not matter). That cross hanging from his waistcoat pocket witnessed to the religious basis of his political faiths; but the sharp...
    64 KB (7,832 words) - 09:37, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for White tie
    worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or pique bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar. Mid or high-waisted...
    28 KB (2,917 words) - 21:26, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frock coat
    the main body and also a high degree of waist suppression around the waistcoat, where the coat's diameter round the waist is less than round the chest...
    38 KB (5,208 words) - 00:49, 25 April 2024
  • and was clearly the murder weapon. His trouser pockets were turned inside out but his waistcoat pocket had his personal watch still running, which the...
    8 KB (1,141 words) - 06:41, 20 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tambour lace
    heavier weight fabrics featuring tambour-style embroidery, such as jackets, waistcoats, and gowns, were created for the export market in countries including...
    5 KB (487 words) - 22:10, 13 November 2023
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