Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefer to shrug off the whole problem can fall back on scarves--either silk or nylon squares or heavy wool plaid mufflers; leather belts, or gold and silver evening belts; or a ski socks-and-mittens set, or fur earmuffs...
Haile Selassie, 56, bearded Lion of Judah and Emperor of Ethiopia, laid in a stylish stock against the unpredictable future. Flown to him from Manhattan on his order were five business suits (a grey flannel, two striped grey worsteds, a navy blue, a grey worsted with small plaid), two topcoats, three dinner suits, three sport jackets (two beige Kashmir, one of herringbone weave), and five pairs of slacks...
...Food. On the fourth day, Ike relaxed the security sufficiently to allow photographers to take pictures. He posed in a raucous red and black plaid jacket, called it "the Maclke tartan." But he turned down reporters' gambits on politics with a firm: "Not even no comment on no comment." Then, indicating a table being set for lunch, he grinned and cracked: "You can say I'm running for food." Roly-poly George Allen, his spirits dampened by a strict diet, was even more uncommunicative...
...picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...
Presiding over R.F.D. America is Joe Kelly, a veteran quizmaster (Quiz Kids') and radio hayfoot (National Barn Dance). Wearing a violent plaid shirt, overalls and straw hat, and spouting wheezy barnyard jokes, Kelly is the only jarring note among the soberly dressed, well-scrubbed men & women who participate in the show...