Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your article on David Riesman [TIME, Sept. 27] you opened up the subject of how rapidly America is changing. I feel you should be apprised of still another significant change in the U.S. scene. On leaving a Manhattan restaurant today with two friends, we were approached by a tweed-bearing, clean-shirted, clipped-mustached man of about 60. Said he, in an Ivy League accent: "I don't know my name. I can't think what my name might...
President and Mrs. Pusey were at home to their second freshman class yesterday. A long line of tweed and flannel clad figures wound through the 17 Quincy St. ballroom. At the head of the line, the President and his wife stood and chatted with the latest arrivals to the Yard. As the freshmen introduced themselves the President smiled politely and fidgited with his fingers. Mrs. Pusey asked a question. They answered briefly. Those students through introductions lounged about, cheerfully sipping tea, while those waiting in line shifted from foot to foot and coughed quietly...
There has always been malicious talk around college campuses that police are out to get students, that they are envious of tweed sport jackets, or some such thing. Of course, this is not true...
...opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat, and strode with determined sophistication out the door...
...Calvin Coolidge, and it's the first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...