Word: flannelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other vote did not come until late in the question period, after Mr. Cole had answered such queries as "When you buy British books, how much is the British shilling worth in American cents?" and "Why was the Coop set up to begin with?" A flannel suited youth in the back row raised his hand...
...Connecticut dream house. As he commuted between his country acres and his Madison Avenue office, Blandings got to thinking that it wasn't really enough just to own a house. A man ought to pull his weight in the community. What happened to fiction's famous flannel-brained Manhattan adman in the social & political briers of rural New England is the lightsome burden of Blandings' Way, FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins' sequel to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House...
...most ways, little Bobby Gordon is like any of the other eleven-year-olds he plays with in Cleveland. He wears-blue jeans and flannel shirts, has trouble with spelling, whoops loudly at the cowboy matinees on Saturdays. But for several years Bobby has had a way of astounding his elders...
Judging by the last week or two, the Radcliffe student body has seized almost total monopoly of your letters column. The avalanche of opinion seems to have been perpetrated, innocently enough, by a small piece of flannel headgear ("The Red Menace"), and been swept into the rhetorical realms of women's rights, regimentation, Freedom of the Individual, Harvard's parity or superiority to Midwestern universities, etc. We have suddenly become a Burning Issue. We are reminded: (1) Beanies are cute (2) Beanies are ugly (3) We are indulging a degrading herd instinct (4) We are following the dictates of Free...
Then she drove off with her captors. Later she was taken to Las Ventas women's prison on Madrid's outskirts. Her butler stood waiting with her "prison kit," a large suitcase containing grey flannel slacks, leather jacket, woolen undies, sleeping bag, cologne water and salmon silk pajamas. The duchess has been jailed four times since 1947, always keeps her kit ready...