Word: flannel
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...Grey Flannel Trousers...
...White Flannel Trousers...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...
...circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed as the only "thriller" of a scarcely endurable season...
...little figure, spry as a stoat, in grey flannel trousers, white sleeveless sweater, bobbed this way and that, swung his Bright arm flail-fashion, tried to make his legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over...