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  • His interview with "Stillers" and "Skellers", Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern, may conjure up memories of pun-heavy songs at the end of Nationwide and the type of post-supper, dinner-jacket cabaret that one recalls was already outmoded in 1983 when the interview took place, but Johnston launches into it with such brio that it makes your prejudices seem churlish.

    The Best Views from the Boundary – Test Match Special's Greatest Interviews Rob Bagchi 2010

  • She rubbed her face against my dinner-jacket coat.

    Movie Night 2010

  • I ` m-a dinner-jacket will, moreover, have been encouraged to believe that we are a decadent country of foppish bleeding hearts that would welcome the prospect of being annihilated for the crimes of the British Empire.

    National Nuclear Day In Iran Newmania 2007

  • I ` m-a dinner-jacket will, moreover, have been encouraged to believe that we are a decadent country of foppish bleeding hearts that would welcome the prospect of being annihilated for the crimes of the British Empire.

    Archive 2007-04-15 Newmania 2007

  • The French term “le smoking” actually means dinner-jacket.

    French Women Don't Get Fat (copy) ____Maggie 2006

  • The French term “le smoking” actually means dinner-jacket.

    Archive 2006-08-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • Could we imagine a world where France has a nuclear weapons capability and Britain does not – or a world where Iran is nuclear-tipped and we are reliant on the Americans to turn Tehran into a glass-coated car park if armoured dinner-jacket really does go off the rails?

    The curse of Trident Richard 2006

  • We dropped off his luggage heavy, because of dinner-jacket etc and were then ready to enjoy this magnificent city, so headed for the great Cathedral: "Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot".

    Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • He looked so pink and clean and genial in his dinner-jacket.

    The Years 2004

  • He got up as she came in and introduced her to a stoutish, white-haired old man in a dinner-jacket.

    The Years 2004

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