Word: calico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon lost in the shuffle of calico and cowboy boots and does not reappear until way into the last...
Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...
...spend as much as $6,000 a year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
...First Communist. Father Molnar explained his peculiar faith to his visitors, just as his congregation was leaving his hilltop church, the women placid in bright calico skirts, the men proud in black Sunday suits and polished black boots. Father Molnar has built up an unreal paradoxical world in which history's most sharply opposite faiths are fantastically synthesized. He declared himself a strong believer in Marxism, but he maintained that spiritual guidance remained the clergy's rightful monopoly. On his bookshelf, he keeps church literature next to Stalin's Problems of Leninism. Marx's Kapital...
Down at the Club. Until Nellie Donnelly came along, most cheap cotton dresses were dowdy calico prints, which housewives wrapped around themselves like sacks. Nellie designed her own prints for manufacturers to make, trained her seamstresses to turn them into neat, form-fitting styles...