Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocky Aussies entered Tobruch in a burlesque of glory. Along the way some of them sat down and calmly had a snack of bully beef. In town a previously captured Australian airman in blue trousers, a blue sweater and a British Army cap, who had persuaded many Italians to cease firing, greeted the attackers in the principal square: "Welcome, pals! Come right in-the town's yours." An Aussie soldier hauled down the Italian flag and hauled up his broad-brimmed hat in its place. Another changed the name of the main street from Via Mussolini...
Notes on People and Stuff: Al Gilbert in a white turtle-neck sweater and a beret . . . President James Byrant Conant in an exquisitely cut six-button tweed--why is he only the fifth best dressed man? I don't think Max Baer's got anything on him . . . W. Russell Bowie, Jr., President of that delicious Harvard Lampoon, in a palmbeach suit and a steamer rug . . . of course Lucius Beebe came in a trolley...
Also on the program is a soothing little job called "Maryland." It's all very horsy, very colorful, and there's Brenda Joyce in a sweater and Fay Bainter being a witch about the whole thing. A pleasant oil to pour over the ruffled waters whipped up by the first feature...
...Zeta Psi, to which his sons Joe Leroy and Don Evan belong, went through the traditional initiation. He is the only nonstudent ever to get a letter from U. C. L. A., an honor that has impressed him so much that he usually wears his blue "C" on a sweater when he idles about his house. After Brown's auto accident last year, U. C. L. A. students held a special mass meeting to pray for his recovery. He responded by showing up a few weeks later to watch a football game from a stretcher...
...have to have 'em. Of course, the perfect mate, as she was going to be, would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, free...