Word: flannelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passive, dull, and slightly sullen drive to do away with 'distinctiveness.'" In case you are still wondering just who Aldrich is referring to, he tells you how to spot them: "The most obvious emblem of the party is a uniform seen practically everywhere at Harvard--construction boots, jeans, plain flannel shirts, and puffy quilted parkas...
...then would flee rather than be devoured by the hostile beast lurking inside every large corporation which, according to the folklore then current, would pounce upon anyone showing the least inclination toward independent thought, word, deed or dress. That folklore, chronicled in books like "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Organization Man," and "Life in the Crystal Palace," was, I think, absurdly overdrawn. In any event, I did not encounter the beast...
...Consider the remedy used by Actress Doris Day, 51. "One night a week I make it a practice to cover my entire body, forehead to toes, with Vaseline," she reveals in a new biography, Doris Day, Her Own Story, by A.E. Hotchner. "I then put on a flannel nightgown and lightweight socks to cover my feet and go to sleep like that." The gooey cure poses some problems. She cautions: "If you're sleeping with a man, husband or otherwise, you are not a very appetizing number in this condition, and it's best...
...were a traditional gift; often quotations from Scripture were embroidered on them, and they were handed down over the generations. The children were breast-fed-or if their parents were rich and interested in emulating the latest London trend, a wet nurse was hired. The child was wrapped in "flannel sheets," as the homespun blankets or quilts were usually called, and bedded in a cradle; diapers in the modern sense were unknown...
...arrival of Gerald Ford at a weekend party for journalists in Washington set off more than the usual hubbub. The President, with a bravely smiling Betty Ford at his side, was all tricked out like a cocktail cowboy in a snazzy Western-style shirt suit of blue-gray flannel decorated with white saddle stitching. For some guests, Jerry Ford's new garb, a gift from friends, brought to mind his past uncertain flights of fashion. Greeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito last year on a grand tour of Asia, for example, the President was dressed in a cutaway-with...