Word: sweater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this sociological theme, British Novelist Colin MacInnes has fashioned a book that for most of its length is as jaunty and bitterly Jumble-joking as the Spades themselves. Johnny MacDonald Fortune, 18, is the lad in from Lagos, Nigeria, wearing a white and crimson sweater, a nylon shirt with gold safety pins on each collar point, and a sky-blue gabardine jacket. The first thing he does in London, for the sky-blue hell of it, is to clamber up a down escalator. And in a sense that is what he does in rundown London for the rest...
...worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with the Schnozz's deathless evaluation of Lana Turner: "Take away her sweater and whatta...
...Churches and the Lutheran World Federation could only protest and reiterate "full confidence" in Lajos Ordass. From Vienna a TIME correspondent cabled this picture of the defeated bishop: "He now lives in a two-room Budapest apartment with his wife, two daughters and two grandchildren. Wearing an old grey sweater, as grey as his face, and smoking too much, Ordass manages to speak serenely despite the fact that he is obviously ill. He may or may not get a pension from the government. But his wife, who is suffering from asthma, recently learned how to make artificial flowers...
...dollar a day, and you begin to see him without too much imagination; a dollar a day and you have bought your way into the conspiracy against him. But then, you wouldn't know about that. In your Bermuda shorts and crewneck sweater, your sweat socks and white tennis shoes and Jones Beach...
...recent article on the British schoolgirl's uniform annoyed me intensely. There is nothing smarter than a box-pleated gym slip, fresh white blouse and colored tie. True, the stockings are not glamorous, but think of the English climate. Give me the English schoolgirl type to the overpainted sweater girl and sloppy bobby-soxer of the States...