Word: tieless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...known to wear a tie only half a dozen times in his life. On one occasion he wore a tie to a baseball writers' banquet in Boston simply to cross up the reporters; a friend had assured him that they had already written their stories and reported him tieless...