Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost Lust. In the Orwellian world of ANC there will be no telephone exchanges to take pride of comfort in. Philadelphia's old-guard PEnnypacker and stalwart FIdelity will be gone; San Francisco will lose its lusty KLondike and sunny VAlencia; Mobile's TUlip will wither alongside Cincinnati's BRamble and Santa Fe's YUcca. Fenton, MO., will be torn from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such...
Whatever the explanation, almost no one found any great comfort in the fact that the Dow-Jones averages ended the week higher than they had started it. To Wall Street professionals, the modest recovery was flawed by the fact that higher prices were accompanied by a decline in trading volume to 3,010,000 shares a day. Warned Edmund Tabell of Walston & Co.: "The market is not going to go up right away. It might go lower again...
...full circle. Back around the turn of the century, when there was no such thing as warm weather fashions, gentlemen wore their winter suits in summer--and were both correct and terrifically uncomfortable. Then, in the great relaxation of the twenties, correctness and heavy clothing were sacrificed to comfort. By the beginning of the thirties, a man could be unashamedly comfortable and woefully dishevelled in a baggy seersucker suit...
...however, it looks like comfort is once again on the way out. Creases are sharpening, suit materials are stiffening and even thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
...acceptable item on the new fashion list is the white linen suit, just brought back from years in the closet. White linen, as survivers of the British raj can tell you, is that unique frabric which unites comfort and elegance: it keeps you cool, and it retains its shape...