Word: flanneled
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...Best Flannel. One consequence was that the main bedroom in the Leighton house was littered with oatmeal dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace...
Marie Leighton was adamant about airing. There was no better way to catch pneumonia, she said, than to wear a flannel garment that had not been properly warmed and aired. "And when it comes to things like chemises and drawers, which go next to the skin, it's always on the safe side to let them go on airing for the better part of a week." She was adamant on many points: furs mothproofed with pepper, the futility of female education, the social inadequacy of Unitarians. Robert Leighton, her husband, was unfortunately not only a Unitarian but a less...
Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...
...pride his adventures in local boudairs and bagnios, he offered what he described as "humble but trenchant" advice to aspirants of the higher life: "Keep your hair long, and your fingers nails long," he said. "Remain at room temperature but warm before serving. Wear a blue blazer and gay-flannel ducks...
Questions as to methods of approach, escape from public surveillance, and strategy for severing connections were waved aside as Gaulois' own gray-flannel ducks, Leo and Harvey, waddled in from the foyer. Harvey laid a pin-striped...