Word: foulard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short stories, Talk of the Town, and other departments are easier to comment on and you may very well find some of them highly amusing, especially if you know The New Yorker like the inside of your favorite foulard. The humor depends too much on anagrams (Sawdorf-Postoria) and burlesques of well-known situations to suit our taste (the Thurber take-off scrambles grandfather, the attic bed and the six-cylinder Reo of Columbus, Ohio, fame in rather poor fashion). Good parody, it seems to us, should be funny in itself; but we hate to quibble and if you know...
...concluding fashion note states that "Harvard men wear horizontally and vertically striped knitted and foulard ties and bows in restrained patterns." The source of all this revealing data is not disclosed...
...story is no more than a fair excuse for the neat moviemaking which makes this picture entertaining. It is smartly directed by Michael Gordon. Mr. Price, with his sloping charm and his foulard voice, is just what a really villainous Wall Street operator ought 'to look like. Ella Raines has a lot of sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into...
...course Lucius Beebe was there--in a herringbone plaid ensemble with hand-knit foulard tie. He's so exclusive he didn't speak to a soul--just sat there on the fifty yard line, changing his tie every quarter...