Word: flanneled
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They knew it was going to be an important interview, because they all came in grey-flannel suits--even the ones from Columbia and Manhattan Colleges. There were twenty-five of them, five from Harvard, crowded into a small room, and the room was painted grey and altogether it was a gloomy atmosphere. Every half-hour an older man in a blue pin-striped suit came in and called off a name. The name adjusted the knot of his tie and went into a room down the hall where five other men in pin-striped suits sat around a table...
...turned out that they were asking everyone the same questions, but getting different answers, and one flannel wondered why another had answered as well as he had thought maybe another had answered in that way and thought. But anyway, there are two scholarships to be given...
...screen while the young artists-or at least those who have sent in for the 50? Winky Dink Magic TV Kit-make copies and add their own embellishments. The Magic Kit contains a transparent plastic window that sticks to the TV screen, a set of special crayons and a flannel erasing cloth. Parents are assured that "the Magic Window . . . will in no way harm your...
...traditional flannel suit is fighting a desperate last-ditch battle to retain its preeminence in the field. Gray flannel seems to be definitely losing favor and the manufacturers have introduced a new color--"char-brown"--which they hope may help them steal a march on the rest of the garment industry. If the color gimmick falls, merchants say, the flannel regime may well be coming...
...rate, most of the Crimson ward-robe is due for some radical rearrangement in a year of profound and expensive change in male apparel. Of the traditional clothing we can only say that if all the flannel suits over sold in Harvard Square were laid and to end--we wouldn't be surprised...