 | Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin - Inventors - 1910 - 532 pages
...wore a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waistcoat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large wide-awake... | |
 | Samuel Insull - Electric light plants - 1915 - 582 pages
...wore a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waistcoat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large 'wideawake'... | |
 | Bertie Charles Forbes - Biography & Autobiography - 1917 - 570 pages
...a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waist-coat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large 'wideawake'... | |
 | Ernest Greenwood - Electric engineering - 1928 - 318 pages
...a rather seedy, black diagonal, Prince Albert coat and waistcoat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large, wide-awake... | |
| |
I was naturally prepared to accept him as a hero. With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. He wore a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waistcoat,... 