Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After tabulation of mail ballots from University alumni, the University announced yesterday that Harrison Tweed '07 has been elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association...
Struggle for the Minimum. A meticulous dandy, Matisse wears a light tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...
...seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in a loose tweed coat, slacks and sweater, his hands habitually stuffed into his pockets, he has a rather tight, lean, nosy face which wrinkles easily into a vinegarish smile under a widow's peak of crinkly hair. He has a very English embarrassment about expressing emotion about anything. He is rarely...
...leave. Said he: "Good God, no! I'll just pull my houseboat over another mile or so and forget the trouble." The Hindu pianist who played an Indian version of boogie woogie at the houseboat-cabaret Bluebird had a different solution. He bought a new, heavy, imported Scotch tweed suit with heavy overcoat and tweed cap. Asked if he were not afraid of the approaching Moslem tribesmen, he giggled loudly, exclaimed: "Lord, no! I have become a Christian...
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet and smart wife Helle (who ran a Manhattan hat shop during the war) arrived by air. Mme. Bonnet posed for photographers in her stylish grey tweed, 5 in. b.t.k. Discreet statement by the Ambassador: "I have no opinion on these matters...