Word: corduroy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pedagog herself, Miss Charlotte obtained the services of Miss Christine Weyman, an able, experienced Scotswoman who is still Foxcroft's academic headmistress. Miss Charlotte's role was that of organizer, executive and setter of the school's atmosphere, director of its purpose. She put her girls into corduroy uniforms?dark green coats, tan skirts, white shirtwaists. In the evening Fox croft girls wear white crepe de chine, all alike, no chance for rich little girls to show...
...mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough...
...camera and come out lifelike but such as it is, it now comes within the scope of all who have the price of a Ciné Kodak and a roll of Kodacolor. In the hand Kodacolor looks like any other film; under the microscope it looks like corduroy ribbon. The tiny corrugations are microscopic lenses, made of the film substance, running the length of the film, 559 to the inch. Different from the lens of eye glass or microscope, they resemble rather the lens-like drops of moisture which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once...
Hero: a man clad in knee length corduroy "britches," long stockings, shoes and a wool shirt, equipped with pocket for carrying field notes...
...Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City...