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Until recently, the only garment ever made specifically for me was a dowdy macramé sweater scarred with Newport Light burns. Actually, it wasn't a sweater???just a sleeve, constructed over many years with a characteristic mix of love and laziness by my grandmother, a woman who believed that all children needed one sweater knitted just for them but who also used knitting as an instant soporific after M*A*S*H repeats, a few crèmes de menthe and 40 or so cigarettes. Had she lived to be 100 instead of 75, she still would not have finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cuff Above | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Young women of the most brazen sort, Auckland reporters agreed, were ringleaders in turning an orderly procession of jobless men down Queen Street into a wild scramble of pillage. One of the hussies wore a sweater???the reporters were sure. Beyond that they only knew that the young women placed themselves unexpectedly at the head of the procession and began throwing stones into the window of a jewelry store. Four hussies were seen to escape with skirtsful of jewelry down a side street. By that time their feminine example had spurred the men to some really heavy looting. Auckland police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Hussies & Pillage | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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