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dinner-jacketed

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  • Mary HodgesOxford • Being a son of one the dinner-jacketed voluntary stewards at the newly opened Festival Hall, I enjoyed your Archive 4 May.

    Letters: Doorstep politics 2011

  • You don't have to yearn for a return to the days of dinner-jacketed deference on the BBC, or want an end to robust questioning, to feel uncomfortable at all this playground bullying of a man deemed weak.

    Memo to Labour: the Press is Always Revolting 2009

  • You don't have to yearn for a return to the days of dinner-jacketed deference on the BBC, or want an end to robust questioning, to feel uncomfortable at all this playground bullying of a man deemed weak.

    Memo to Labour: the Press is Always Revolting 2009

  • You don't have to yearn for a return to the days of dinner-jacketed deference on the BBC, or want an end to robust questioning, to feel uncomfortable at all this playground bullying of a man deemed weak.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The dinner-jacketed Altman photographed with his lifetime achievement Oscar is a severe icon; the younger man is amiable, chubbier, academic-looking, but the late-period Altman is the sort of American who should be written about by James Fenimore Cooper or pictured with a rifle, like the statues of the Minutemen at Concord and Lexington.

    GreenCine Daily: Robert Altman, 1925 - 2006. 2006

  • A dinner-jacketed waiter showed them to their table, which was far enough away from the dance floor and the small band for the music not to be too intrusive.

    Passionate Relationship Jordan, Penny 1997

  • She eyed his magnificent person; she doubted if the inhabitants of Meadow Road had ever seen such dinner-jacketed elegance.

    The Course Of True Love Neels, Betty 1993

  • A group of dinner-jacketed adolescents had just come through the glass entrance doors.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • A group of dinner-jacketed adolescents had just come through the glass entrance doors.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • A group of dinner-jacketed adolescents had just come through the glass entrance doors.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

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