Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...
...president, Learned Hand '93; two vice-president, David Cheever '97, and Harrison Tweed '07; and a secretary-treasurer, Clark, govern the Association. The board of Directors consists of 15 men, six apopinted from the faculty and larger Harvard Clubs, and nine elected by postal ballot...
...brown tweed suit marked Charter House about 38 size...
...possibility of Huey Long in the White House. Last week Senator Robinson, who gets riled by him, described him as a Red. Communists call him a Fascist. In truth he is just about as much of a Red, just about as much of a Fascist, as the late Boss Tweed-no more and no less...
When Publisher John Farrar received from Colonel Tweed in London the manuscript for Gabriel Over the White House, he sensed a good thing. Roosevelt was in the thick of his 1932 campaign. The Bonus Army had set a new pattern for direct action at Washington. The U. S. was groaning and growling for a political miracle to lift it from the depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors...