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...Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers? white flannel with black cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Feminine falsetto and masculine might of lung now join in a great volume of incoherent sound at the commands of gentlemen with flannel trousers and megaphones and the play wrights and the moving pictures consider the Rah-rah as the regular undergraduate greeting. Forty years ago these cheers were objects of interest to collegians, who now take them as part of the game, along with girls, flasks, and hard stone seats. In the CRIMSON of December 20, 1886, there appears an excerpt from the "Yale Daily News", commenting on cheers and cheering in the old days, and deploring some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson and Blue Oarsmen Inspired First Organized Cheers in College Sport--Early Cornell "Cry" Called Irreverent | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House clothing canvass which closed last Saturday netted an odd assortment of Harvard haberdashery. Nineteen pairs by knickers, 20 soft felt hats, 15 stiff collars, four white full dress vests and one pair of cerise flannel underwear were among the sartorial prizes contributed for the needy Northmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cerise Underclothing Lends High Tone to Eleemosynary Drive for Discarded Toggery--Malamutes Get Full Dress Vests | 11/30/1926 | See Source »

...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Impartial | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of old pumps . . . and sundry other clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Award | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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