Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Girls who tried to navigate the sidewalk in front of the Indoor Athletic Building after Saturday's basketball game cast fearful looks at ominous puddles. One smart creature appeared in plaid slacks. The mushy street was just too much for long skirts and open-toed shoes...
...bejeweled countesses and duchesses in the lobby recoiled as a barefoot, plaid-shirted pilgrim from the Left Bank stalked past them. Communist Poet Louis Aragon stood near Catholic Poet Paul Claudel, and close by was Protestant Novelist André Gide. The opening night that attracted such a variegated audience to the Théatre Marigny promised to be the most exciting of the Paris theater season. And the promise was kept...
...Technicolor, in piercing circus poster colors, puts the lassies into rich kirtles and the laddies into brave plaid pantaloons. Everyone also cuts such fine figures of speech that Parks gets an unscheduled giggle when he says (of his own destiny): "I canna stop the wind...
...Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked: "How about a kiss...
...present policy, which permits 'Cliffedwellers to take Harvard courses above Freshman level, will keep to a minimum the number of professors who hold forth in New Lecture Hall or Emerson and an hour or so later toddle across the Square to deliver the same soporific to saddle-shoed, plaid-skirted intellectuals. Course offerings of the two colleges are 80 similar that it is a waste of men, time, and money not to bring classes together wherever space permits. Only the large Freshman courses are ordinarily so crowded that combination lectures or class discussions become impracticable, and these courses are excluded...