Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking-to the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience-he leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...
...Dictionary of American Biography: every biography that rated 1½ pages or more was selected in the first drawing. Then, for reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily...
...esthetics into party art, and his public and humble apology to the party for having had a thought of his own. When such people show a concern about "free speech" they must be talking "quietistic" nonsense. I would like to see the three W's and B reacting in tweed coated agony to "an incredibly well organized" group of black camelias or knights of the burning pestle breaking up a Communist rally in Madison Square Garden...
...march on New England weather and the rest of the University by being the first 1947 summer seersucker jacket in the Yard. The nattiest of his four cotton Brooks Brothers models stood between his knitted tie and North Atlantic winds yesterday, as less hardy specimens still relied on tweed and corduroy...