Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently the classroom began to fill. Eight legs of dark gray-flannel, one tweed-skirt, and five moving tongues completed Vag's row. He leaned back and looked around the room, his eyes following waving hands, his ears following friendly greetings, and his nose following the feminine scents wafting up and down the aisle...
Afterwards, Vag heard the Gray-Flannels and Tweed-Skirt. "Tremendous lecturer," one pair was saying. "He really gets down to the meaning of essence." another agreed. "For me," the Tweed-skirt said solemnly, "it holds the essential truths on which we might base all thought...
...barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses the Tweed...
Married. Diana Barrymore, 25, actress-daughter of the late, oft-wed Great Profile and Poetess Michael Strange (Mrs. Oelrichs Tweed); to John Howard, 23, tennis pro; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...