Word: sackful
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...over the rural U.S., the alarm spread: the gaily printed cotton flour sack, time-tested foundation of the nation's farm fashions, was going out with the white flour. According to the crossroad rumors, the recent dark-flour order (see BUSINESS) had caused U.S. millers to substitute plain muslin, disdainfully stamped EMERGENCY FLOUR, for the gay old bags...
Farm wives blanched at the rumor. For years, the stout, fast-color flour sack, paisley, checked, flowered or striped, had been as important as its contents. Mothers had turned the sacks into housedresses, children's playsuits, shorts, curtains, bedspreads and towels. Cried one Red Oak, Ga., wife: "We can live on crackers and cornbread if we have to. But we can't send our children to school naked...
...Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
...Attlee and Bevin, most of the Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
Male styles stayed dourly conservative. In 1946, as in 1945 and before that, men will wear sack coats without vests, topped by cloth caps in unrelieved dark shades. Hats, when worn, will be high-crowned, narrow-brimmed...