Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brushed past the men in the heavy rimmed glasses who were fluttering around the dirty-legged Radcliffe girl on the steps of Emerson. "Buster, things have changed," he said to one of the tweed jackets. The answer was an unseeing eye. "The New England Frappe Bar, men with women and General Education." Vag agreed with himself-- "Things have certainly changed." He elbowed his way through the perfumed corridor to audit a general education...
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Divorced. By Diana Barrymore, 25, actress daughter of the late great profile and Poetess "Michael Strange" (now Mrs. Harrison Tweed): Bramwell Fletcher, 42, British-born actor; after four years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
Spencer, tall (a stooping 6 ft. 5 in.), strawberry-blond, and handsome, is a specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course...
...Harrison Tweed Blaine...