Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detective Sgt. Leo Davenport, one of the three detectives called in by university police to question Roderick P. Murphy, noticed that the youth was wearing an expensive-looking but ill-fitting tweed topcoat. Recalling the robbery report, Davenport said, "You gave that guy quite a beating when you stole the coat and wallet...
Civil War Historian (First Blood) Swanberg calls Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...
When the stout, one-man garment center was shot to death by a rival suitor for Miss Mansfield's shopsoiled hand, Boss Tweed was the first to assure the world that the departed had been "a man of broad soul and kindly heart." But the true verdict was given by Erie shares: as Fisk sank, they rose...
...seemed a very kind man, shy but friendly, with an English tweed jacket and a smile all his own. "I thought you might be the telephone man; I'm expecting someone this morning to connect the phone. I understand you have some questions to ask; I wish you could have left them earlier; I'm not really so good at this sort of thing. But do come...
When I was with her, I felt that I, too, could fly. With her, I abandoned myself to the luxury of lechery...to her bare clean lips, her cool tweed sweaters, her short warm tweed skirts, her tights which covered her painfully long thin legs without wrinkling...