Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stein Way. In Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, crewmen from a German timber freighter said they had run out of water during their voyage, but had been able to finish the trip on beer...
...deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes fatale, with Wallace Stevens under one arm and Well of Loneliness under the other...
...trouble digging up talented drummers, found that most of his sidemen (average age: 23) had a classically oriented training: "They kept giving me the blue-serge treatment. I had to work hard to get that rough-tweed effect." Language was a problem too; Brown's instructions to a sax man, for instance, were delivered to a trombonist, who translated them to a trumpeter, who again translated them for the confused saxophonist. The situation was further complicated by the fact that Brown's band was to play mostly new works, especially commissioned for the festival, e.g., John La Porta...
...Slip me a spare match, sister?" inquired one tweed-beaten young man at the corner. Portia didn't smoke; and moved on in injured innocence...
...could never wear one," said the first face, feeling its necktie, "but it might be all right on you, although a gentleman never wears brown--unless it's tweed. I hope he lets us go in together, after he's through with the House Master...