Word: tweed
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...could forget our low marks and miserable social life if we could get to Yale and buy a genuine tweed jacket, a pipe, and a superior attitude. Not only that, but the professor who made the suggestion said we could "renew old high school friendships," which would be marvelous especially since we've avoided them for some time now. But we're told that Yale is a friendly school where people talk to each other or if they don't they can exchange knowing looks...
...factory where wages were worse than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left elbow...
...first time striding along the campus of Princeton University or lunching with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds, the trustees of Princeton decided that...
...next impromptu speaker wore a tweed coat with a velvet collar, and was interrupted by an occasional cheer for Jackson J. Holtz and the common...
...labor. Said Ike: "I wonder what kind of political children they think we are-and what kind of a man do they think I am?" So great was the crush after the speech that the President forgot his topcoat, made the return trip to the airport in a tweed model borrowed from a Secret Service...