Word: gingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South. Fierce Yap and Woleai men [who had been imported as slave labor by the Japs] did a wild sword dance. Some wore breechclouts and danced barefoot. Others stomped proudly in G.I. shoes. Mreah, a male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right,' as a great compliment to the Americans...
Usually able to answer all such questions, the information office's consultant in Widener said he knew of no such animal, except for "the one in Eugene Field's poem about the "Gingham Dog and the Calico...
First to prescribe uniforms in a U. S. girls' school, Miss Ruutz-Rees introduced them, over her girls' objections, in 1897. Uniforms now are Rosemary blue (matching her eyes) tweed skirts and sweaters for fall and winter, gingham dresses for spring, blue capes for chapel, star-shaped berets. Once, at a tennis tournament at the Round Hill country club, Miss Ruutz-Rees shouted to a player across the green: "Crawford, have you got on your blue bloomers...
Down to Union Station to meet her went 6,000 bearded men and gingham-gowned women. Braving the bleak, rain-speckled wind was roly-poly Mayor Dan B. Butler, who asked giddy Gracie to call him "Dan." Said she: "You can't say Dan over the radio...