Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the loss of a 6,000-record library when he fled Germany in 1936, Dr. Koch has today one of the world's greatest collections of bird and animal recordings. Muffled in an old tweed coat, he carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks...
...conformist always looks like the man next to him. When in college, he dresses in grey flannels, tweed or seer-sucker jackets, and white bucks. His shirt is buttoned to the neck, and he would no more think of going without a tie than he would of wearing many-hued socks with a tailored suit...
...election day, Tory Anthony Eden put on a brown tweed suit and set out hatless to tour the polling stations in his Warwickshire constituency. At one Conservative headquarters, officials told Eden of two elderly spinsters who had sent word, "Don't worry about us. We shall bicycle down to vote after tea." At another station, an indomitable 80-year-old woman made it to the polling booth, cast a Tory vote and collapsed. Said she: "Well, there, that's the last thing I can do for my country...
With his vigorous news pages, Dana ran blistering editorials against Boss Tweed, the Crédit Mobilier and the Whisky Ring. Yet the Sun also sentimentally assured eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
...candidates for Overseers are: Harrison Tweed '07, New York, Law; Roger Adams '09, Chicago, Chemistry; Frederick Lewis Allen '12, New York, publishing; Raymond S. Wilkins '12, Boston, Judiciary; John E. Slater '13, New York, Shipping; Christian A. Herter '15, Boston, Government; and John S. Fleek '15, Cleveland, Finance...