Word: hopsack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a tailor sued Valentine Edward Charles Browne. Viscount Castlerosse, beefy director of London newspapers, for ?75 ($260) for two dinner suits of blue herringbone and blue tropical hopsack, two extra pairs of trousers and six white waistcoats, ordered for wear on his 1932 U. S. visit. Defense: misfit ("only fit for . . . the Zoo"). To the tailor's testimony that his shape was hard to fit and he could not stand still, Lord Castlerosse replied: "I have been in the Guards and I am told I am an expert at standing still." An expert witness called the coats...
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