Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolmarm in tweed skirts and sensible shoes? That hardly sounds like Britain's Vanessa Redgrave, protester for all reasons. Still, she is starting a school for children in England. "We've got all kinds of ideas of what the school should be" says Vanessa, "but I think we should learn from the children themselves." One course is already set: Swimming. "The wonderful thing about swimming is that it's the only natural environment in which a child can be totally independent from an adult; water is a natural element." After all, says the new pedagogue, "a child...
Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...
...anything from velvet slacks (Magnelli) and collarless tweed jackets (Hartung) to felt capes (Alfred Manessier) and black leather suits (Campigli...
After a lonely Irish boyhood, and a top British school (Clifton), Cary had a futile three years' fling as an art student in Paris and Edinburgh before entering Oxford. Once there, he gamely tried to disguise his bohemian artist's vocation beneath a carapace of casual tweed, but only succeeded in proving that academies are not sound judges of literary talent. He got an almost unheard-of fourth-class honors...
...Harvard Bar Association challenged Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy, to debate on Thursday, but the firm said it couldn't fit the debate into its schedule