Word: flannel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their rakish diamond tactics may soon be Whiffenpoofed to a grey-flannel sophistication...
...quiet, he thought, remembering the way the boys acted when they were all in Boston before. They seemed to be more interested in their marching, too. There weren't any stunts, except a few of the boys were standing in one part of the Yard in their gray flannel underwear, waving their arms...
...Grew was the first off the boat. Dressed in a grey flannel suit, he stepped gingerly down the gangplank, looked about him at the cluttered, smoky, indubitably American landscape of Jersey City. Then he clambered into a black Buick sedan, which took him across the dock where the reporters and newsreel men were waiting. As he grinned, deep lines showed in his face. But he was happy. Nervously fingering his glasses, he stepped up to the newsreel microphone...
...Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Leach (Mrs. Cary Grant) ordered some 20 little numbers put aside. Margaret Sullavan, Joan Fontaine, Carole Landis clapped delighted hands with the lesser Hollywood lights and the wealthy housewives from Beverly Hills and Pasadena as Adrian, himself costumed in a two-piece creation of flannel with cuffed trousers and a washable blue tie, displayed his confections...
...house in the adjoining cloister was completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there is a war on?" "Yes," said Dr. Barry...