Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never work, dreams of going to Manila to try to turn hemp into silk. Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy (Lee Patrick), who henpecks her bill-collector husband (Roscoe Karns...
...college golfer with the huge letter of his university on his sweater made an unforgettable impression on me. I watched him with a great deal of interest from various parts of the course at Wakonda last year, and it was revealed to me more than ever that golf has attained a hold on colleges that will never be lessened and which will be intensified as the sport grows in college favor. College golf has come to stay, not only for the few, but for the many...
...these blessings Knott County mountaineers thank aging Alice Lloyd-now 63, hale & hearty in her sweater-&-skirt director's uniform. But for all their education, there is still life in the mountaineers of Caney Valley. Out of sheer high spirits, on moonlight, moonshine Saturday nights they occasionally put a bullet or two through the gateway sign, pepper the headmistress's house with slugs...
...trial opened with a lively debate between opposing counsel over whether privacy was a 1) civil, 2) political or 3) property right. Judge Roy V. Rhodes quickly put a stop to this argument, got down to bare facts. Miss Lawrence, wearing a tight-fitting red sweater and black & white checked skirt, was called to the stand. Good & loud, she told her story...
...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, freelance...