Word: flannell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fashion notes from Longfellow Hall were added by Smith graduate Helen Mills of New York City, who found the local college habit of "going around in flannel shorts the most ridiculous and absurd thing that I have ever seen...
Pastor to Painter. As his worshipers knew him, Fuseli was "a little white-headed lion-faced man in an old flannel dressing gown tied round his waist with a piece of rope." Brought up to be a Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
...little Morris runabout (he left his Rolls Royce and his chauffeur at home). Usually, with his 112-lb. body wrapped in Bond Street tweeds, wealthy Jockey Richards looks like a well-dressed ex-fullback, seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Last week he went out in flannel shirt and whipcord breeches. The runabout pulled up before a rambling old brick stable. There Richards mounted a delicately built, undersized brown colt named Tudor Minstrel...
...sent to the Odenweldschule, a very modern and experimental school in the woods. I arrived there in midwinter, and was led into a snow-covered enclosure where many little boys and girls hopped around merrily in the nude. I had on a heavy overcoat, a sailor suit, a flannel shirt, a union suit. I was peeled out of all this after a heroic fight and was left in the snow, naked and howling. My health improved from there on, and I spent most of the time making surrealistic paintings, once it was discovered that I liked to draw...
...always wanted to be a nurse. But after she started to work, she had some doubts. Most of her patients were babies and they were usually a little soggy. So, off-duty, she tried to develop a waterproof outer diaper. She finally devised a "Dri-ette," two pieces of flannel bonded to a waterproof center which eliminated the objections of many mothers to rubber pants. The Dri-ette was not patentable but it did the trick. Babies could get wet, but nobody else would...