Word: flannell
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...Slacks, grey flannel or corduroy, are popular at Vassar, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, are forbidden at Wellesley and Duke. Purdue co-eds like jersey culottes (pants disguised as skirts...
...still-smarting convalescent from the occupational disease of British Prime Ministers was Britain's Prime Minister last week. Hobbling gingerly after his first bout of gout (podagra) in 18 months, Neville Chamberlain presided over a Cabinet meeting, his left foot swathed in an enormous flannel boot. Outside, London was whistling the newest hit tune: God Bless You, Mr. Chamberlain. What consolation he could the Prime Minister took from echoes of this ditty and from the list of his distinguished gouty predecessors: Derby, Disraeli, Palmerston, Melbourne, Canning, the Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton...
Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake...
...weight press down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local-talent band which played The Star-Spangled Banner and Tipperary just alike, an open-air performance of Pinafore in thick flannel costumes meant for Alaska, sent to St. Croix by mistake...
Sample titles are "The Quest of a Flannel Row Boat" and "An Evening Behind the Eightball...