Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official who is in with powerful friends, the player who never plays the game but studies the rules to claim an advantage. ..." Space is left for the reader to fill with "names of local personages and special acquaintances." Noah...
Berger, leader of the movement, not only organized the sweater brigade, but also turned out the best piece of cloth. When contacted last night, he said that he will continue his 'knittiu' for Britin'" though all the other puriers gave up in discouragement. "I'll turn out a sweater yet," he boasted...
...These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society, and you may or may not have noticed him. He never won anybody's Down Beat poll, and I can't recall his being photographed at Ciro's, lingering over a long drink with a Sweater Giri-Funny thing, though, the way he plays clarinet is enough to send Goodman and Shaw back to where they come from...
What shall I say, that I'm knitting you a sweater, that I'll write every day? When you went away I realized suddenly that something big is cutting into our lives...
Dusty and tousled in grimy white ducks and sweater, with a knapsack at his shoulder and an umbrella in his hand, wanderlusty Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger trudged into the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot, was hailed by cops, who wanted to know his name. One officer heard it. grunted: "And I'm William Tell," marched him into the station. There Vagabond Grainger produced his proof, departed unperturbed for a concert engagement at Greeley, Colo...