Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firemen said damage was principally in the Harris tweed section of the shop, but declined to estimate the extent of loss or speculate over the origin of the blaze...
...Central Park (Universal-International) is the story of Boss Tweed in a Currier & Ives setting. A colleen (Deanna Durbin), just off the boat from Ireland, flirts with a whiz-bang muckraker (Dick Haymes) from the New York Times. Her illiterate father, in all innocence, fattens zoo pheasants for the table of sybaritic...
...Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...
...Church of Scotland itself, also meeting in Knox's city last week, said nothing. And below the Tweed there were pooh-poohs. Said one palace official: "As guests of the French people, the Princess and her husband shared in a typical continental Sunday. There would appear to be nothing wrong in that." Another who found the Scottish rebuke overly Knoxious was the Venerable J.H.L. Morrell, Archdeacon of Lewes. The royal couple, said Morrell, had "formally done their duty to God by attending divine services on God's day," then had merely "enjoyed themselves naturally and normally as people...
...Tweed is a prominent New York lawyer, president of the New York City Bar Association, past director of the New York Legal Aid Society, and a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund. He graduated from the Law School...