Word: plaids
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...John Dickson Carr have tried their hands at rebuilding this magic world. Like a pair of Frank Lloyd Wrights constructing a row of thatched cottages, they have studied the authentic models down to the last detail. Holmes himself appears on the glossy jacket, dressed in his deerstalker and plaid cloak. Within, a yellow fog haunts as ever the windows of 221-B Baker Street, hansom cabs clop beneath the gas lamps, and Landlady Hudson is forever being swept aside by terrifiec clients. Holmes himself is the same old neurotic-spending most of the day in his mouse-colored dressing gown...
...runs Dunbar, his offices upstairs, his machines downstairs, seems almost caught between the academic life and the work of a scientist. The upstairs rooms are clean and orderly. Downstairs there is machinery, the walls are not so shiny. Birch's own dress, a plaid tie and oxford shirt, partly concealed under a mechanic's apron, reveals part of a double life...
...president came to the door in a blue and green plaid knee-length bathrobe. No shoes. "Sit down," he said. "Excuse me a moment." He was back, still in bathrobe. Now wearing shoes...
...painted a gay plaid...
...during the private bullfighting parties he gives there, using a miniature ring that stands outside the house. After the fight, his mother, Doña Gracia, serves a large meal cooked by herself. The party progresses to flamenco singing and dancing. Luis Miguél, in his blue jeans, plaid shirt and moccasins, sits on the floor and keeps time by clapping his hands. Among the guests may be two or three dukes, a marchioness or a count, Franco's daughter and son-in-law, diplomats, rich Americans, dwarfs, movie stars, farm hands and aspiring bullfighters...