Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market for Maurice de Vlaminck's pictures, at prices from...
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed...
...lush characters (Dickie, the epicene interior decorator, pipes: "I'm upholstering Fifi Vallambrosa's sofa entirely in ... tweeds. . . . We all know [it's] a one-story riding academy. What more endurable than tweed for the sporting life...
...pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year. She has a run-in with two shepherds and their ferocious coal-black dog. She performs the supercanine feat of swimming the River Tweed and reaches English ground, half dead, to drop at the doorsill of two aged, lonely cottagers. They nurse her, realize she is on her way somewhere, sorrowfully let her go. She takes up with a traveling peddler and his charming little trick dog, Toots. She fights off a pair of robbers...
Followed by admiring students, the Duke walked briskly through the Yard wearing a grey double breasted suit. The coat was worn slightly longer than is the American style but the overlap was much narrorer than is customarily worn here. It was an English tweed of rather coarse weave into which was worked a small black hound's tooth check...