Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school mates, neat, precise, churchgoing, independent, heartbreakingly lonely, she lived alone in the mansion she inherited, an exemplification of the remoteness of the culture she taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside the plate, and read...
...slickest dressers, got back from a four-and-a-half-month USO tour of England, North Africa and Sicily - where he reported there were mosquitoes as big as pigeons. Tanned and thinner, he wore a threadbare royal blue outfit, white shirt, red tie with speckled stripes, khaki sweater, green socks, an exhausted artificial carnation...
...fired for laziness and ineptitude, becomes a hanger-out at the Fun Fair, a penny arcade replete with peep shows, pinball games, shooting gallery and a change girl named Ada -"a proper, right, straight up smasher of a bride" with yellow hair, red fingernails and a close-fitting sweater...
...cooperate in any publicity. Photographers and funsters had other ideas. The blonde, 5-ft.-7-in. coach was besieged by photographers loaded down with helmets, shoulder pads, other props, begging her to pose for horseplay photos. The only picture they got was a conservative Pauline in sweater and pearls. They tackled her with such obvious questions as: How does a petticoat coach throw a body block? Coach Pauline disarmingly straight-armed them: an assistant (male) will demonstrate all body contact plays...
Thursday, June 10 was the big day. The faculty nine, led by Captain McNair, was a colorfully dressed outfit. Statistician McNeil especially had the eye of the crowd with his green and white pin striped V-neck sweater; Professor Barloon was his usual sartorial self and played a faultless game at right field in a pair of white shoes and a form fitting light tan gabardine suit, while Slugger McNair cavorted around in a natty white straw...