Word: corduroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song called "Life Could Be So Beautiful" ("There's more than enough for all") which is bewilderingly illustrated by some female dancers in ball gowns, some male dancers in curious green corduroy suits...
...college football coaches describe undergraduates who play the game, was one main subject of discussion last week. At Princeton. 30 members of the squad were ill from food poisoning. At the University of Missouri. Coach Frank Carideo, one-time Notre Dame quarterback, ordered his players to attend classes in corduroy trousers, wear no ties or vests. Reason: "When a player begins to worry about his clothes, he becomes less of a football player and more of a loafer. I'd like to have my men dress so that when they walk down the street people will recognize them...
...rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head of a cheerful crowd of factory girls she marched round & round the D & D plant, out of which the girls had walked several weeks ago because of low wages (3? an hour...
...Like many another yachtsman, he thinks he sails better on the starboard tack, possibly because he finds it more comfortable to hold the gunwale with his right hand while his left is on the tiller. Even-tempered, meticulous, laconic, Skipper Iselin dresses for sailing in a dilapidated Panama hat, corduroy trousers, bow tie. In 20 years of yachting on Long Island Sound, his friend Ed Willis, who is usually his "crew" on the Ace, has never heard him swear the great seagoing oaths with which most smallboat sailors try to compensate for the tinyness of their Victories and stars...
...student strike which meant business and speedily accomplished it was the one at W. & J. during five days of March 1931. Calling Dr. Baker "autocratic" and "domineering," the students protested his strict rules for dress (such as forbidding corduroy trousers), his delay in building a new stadium, his dismissal of three professors, his regulations by which it seemed that athletes were made to work harder than plain students. A trustees' committee investigated the charges. Before it could report, Dr. Baker resigned his job (TIME, May 25, 1931). Ill health (a prostate operation in 1930) was partly responsible...