Word: flannel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...
...killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of old pumps . . . and sundry other clothes...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
...them is worrying in its own way the mind of the University. But the last is by far the most troublesome. For ugliness improves with age--the red sprawl of two weeks is the delightful, gurgling wonder of two months nakedness eventually loses itself in pink ribbons and embroidered flannel--but autocracy grows greater and becomes more formidable with the passing of the months. The tutorial system is doing just that. So the brotherly heart of the lecture system beats the double time of panic. And fear seeps its way into the antiquated manuscripts so long used by many...
...else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses a paragraph. He presents whole regiments of unwashed, flannel-shirted, gun-hung bartenders. There is a rakish analogy of the Red man, the White man and the Blue law. There is the story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames...