Word: turtlenecked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glacier, where it was crunched beneath icebergs like a toy boat in a studio tank. Even more characteristic of Western traditions are Spawn of the North's womenfolk: Louise Platt, the refined, ladylike girl who learns to love the ruggedness of it all, Dorothy Lamour, appearing in a turtleneck sweater instead of a sarong but with the same effect, as a tough tavern-keeper who will stick to George Raft through thick & thin, no matter what people think...
...this point, for no sensible reason, a flapper bride (Heidi Vosseller) comes on wearing a turtleneck sweater, carrying an armful of lilies. Ushers in Prince Alberts appear with flowers in whiskey bottles. The mock marriage is immediately followed by the appearance of a large litter of Princeton children. The one scholar, a janitor with a Phi Beta Kappa key, attempts to sweep up the football hero only to be carried contemptuously offstage on the hero's rugged back. Anticlimax occurs when a Salvation Army lassie snatches off her spectacles, exhibits dancing tights and a rare pair of bright red garters...
...contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...
...Britain. Sportsmen of Sir Walter Gilbey's generation would sooner go to Buckingham Palace in their shirtsleeves than appear in the Row improperly clad. The blood of the old distiller chilled as he saw the world's most aristocratic bridle path encumbered with several persons riding in turtleneck sweaters and bareheaded...