Word: thrifting
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...going south this vacation, but your old clothes will, if you give them to SNCC. Harvard and Radcliffe students will visit the dining halls tonight. The garments they collect will go into a truck headed for the Vine City Thrift Shop in Atlanta...
...advertisements a day before the average U.S. consumer, further tempting him to borrow and buy. The Government encourages borrowing not only by keeping interest rates low but also by making almost all interest payments taxdeductible. Says Donald A. Webster, the Minority (Republican) Economist for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee: "Thrift is the danger today...
...semantic associations of the name "Citizens' Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive" perfectly ilustrate this. "Citizens' Committee:" an image of public spirited opposition, the common man. "Emergency:" connoting the burying of petty hostilities and a rushing to rally around the cause. "Saving:" an appeal to the New England tradition thrift. And oven the word "Memorial:" a suggestion of the taboo on violating the sanctity of the dead...
...with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait collar." So appropriate! Seasoned critics appraised it as authentic early '64. More yet. The outfit, explained Bess Abel, Mrs. Johnson's social secretary, had been bought by Thrift Shopper L.B.J., who used to tote home most of his wife's wardrobe in the days when he had time for such activities. Now that she can suit herself, Mrs. Johnson wears clothes mostly chosen by Neiman-Marcus. L.B.J. brands went thataway...
...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...