Word: corduroys
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...harking back to the glorious days of Liberalism when her father, Lord Asquith, was Prime Minister (1908-16). Last week Bonham-Carter triumphantly topped the Tory candidate by a narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse'n the others-but they might be better; can't tell till...
Cargo Manifest. In Louisville, after two youths snatched her black corduroy bag and police asked for a list of its contents, Millicent Stevens obliged: "A New Testament, one pen-ball pen, one blue-lead pencil, one double salt-and-pepper shaker, one small plastic box with green sample inside for upholstering, two Band-Aids, one Atom Bomb perfume, one string of safety pins, two bottles of partly evaporated milk, some books on health, a few religious tracts, three packs of APC tablets, and, above all, one tan dress coat, a $24 coat of my grandson...
...League Against Cruel Sports, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mother Elizabeth journeyed to Westacre, by their presence lent royal sanction to a meet of the West Norfolk Foxhounds. With them, and showing an avid interest in the hill-and-daling of the baying pack, were Princess Anne, in corduroy slacks and polo coat, and Prince Charles...
...Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with the man who started the poetry-and-jazz trend, Poet Kenneth Rexroth. decked out in red shirt, olive green corduroy suit and black string tie. "Lord! Lord! Lord!" cried Rexroth happily. "Look how it packs them...
...this point, a figure arose from the other end of the counter. Corduroy trousers, a surplus Army combat jacket (over a crew neck sweater), and upon his face the stubby bristle of a cultivated beard...