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...spectacled Harvard alumnus laid his tweed jacket and his program on the grassy bank of the Charles and glanced smilingly out towards the river, the stage of the events he had come to witness. Suddenly, his look turned from one of quiet contentment to furrowed consternation. Squinting his eyes and pushing his glasses halfway into his cornea, he confirmed his suspicions; "Damned if those aren't women out there rowing with men in the same Harvard boat...
Letty, occasionally wondering why romance has passed her by, is careful about her appearance, the kind of woman who "saves" her new tweed suit. Marcia is eccentric and suspicious. Although she hardly eats, she constantly adds to a large hoard of tinned food; she mysteriously refers to an operation she had several years previously, little knowing that her mastectomy has become common knowledge. The two women are the first to leave, and some weeks later they are invited for a reunion luncheon by Norman and Edwin, their former officemates...
...small boy hurried through the ticket gate at Harvard Stadium and proceeded to Section 42, Row F, Seats 3 and 4. The man, in his 30s and his best tweed jacket, moved toward the seats instinctively. Why not? This was his 15th straight season in those seats, and likewise it was 15 years since he had sat with his fellow undergraduates, cursing out the season ticket holders and their better accomodations. Now he was drawing the curse. Oh well...
...Daddy, why are you wearing a tweed jacket and a sweater on a warm...
...classes, kinds of jobs. They can be flags of social ordering. The difference between blue collar and white collar has almost always meant the difference between no tie and tie on the job. While some men in, say, the professorial classes go tieless, wearing blue work shirts under their tweed jackets, plenty of factory workers aspire to jobs that involve ties. In William Inge's Picnic, Hal Carter speaks wistfully of a job "in a nice office where I can wear a tie and have a sweet little secretary." When dressing up, blue collar workers often like a loud...