Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jollity of such scenes as the one in which Robert Armstrong, acting from confused jealousy when he learns of the girl's relations with Gilbert, tricks Gilbert into falling from a high girder in an unfinished building, then tries to pull him up with the sleeve of a sweater which finally gives...
Ignoring precedent, a spectator in the gallery when the House convened was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, bareheaded, knitting a sweater. When members spotted the First Lady, they rose and clapped. Mrs. Roosevelt responded by standing, nodding, smiling pleasantly, and like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With her in the Presidential box were her son James, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Mrs. Mary Howe Baker, daughter of Roosevelt Secretary-Crony Louis McHenry Howe, and Miss Nancy Cook, Mrs. Roosevelt's partner in the Val Kill furniture factory...
...Square the cameramen found a ratty, dilapidated farmhouse, 200 years old, no electricity, no plumbing. They found the Countess a broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez glasses, and greying hair pulled back from her high forehead. Clad in a wool dress and old sweater she showed the newsmen the chicken house which she keeps clean, the wood she had chopped and the cow which follows her about like a pet. Countess and cow posed...
Immigration authorities at Ellis Island, where Mike was to be found next day wearing a tiger orchid pinned to his sweater, were not quite sure what they could do with their prisoner. When he arrived in Manhattan three weeks ago after a year spent chiefly in French jails for stowing away on the He de France and later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began...
...yards down the field and made the touchdown that won the game. With the stands in an uproar, the coach rushed over to me and said 'My God, who . . . where . . . who are you, where did you learn to play such football?' I looked at him, peeled off my sweater and showed him all the decorations and medals pinned on my chest that I had won playing football in England, Turkey, Germany...."?Howard Scott, as told to Greenwich Village cronies...