Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time striding along the campus of Princeton University or lunching with the boys at the Quadrangle Club, Robert Francis Goheen (rhymes with so keen) would hardly seem to be more than a typical Ivy-League graduate student. He has the uniform crew cut, usually wears the standard tweed jacket. But at 37, Assistant Professor Goheen is a first-rate classicist who has won the devotion of his students and the respect of his elders. Last week, after more than a year's search for a successor to retiring President Harold W. Dodds, the trustees of Princeton decided that...
...next impromptu speaker wore a tweed coat with a velvet collar, and was interrupted by an occasional cheer for Jackson J. Holtz and the common...
...labor. Said Ike: "I wonder what kind of political children they think we are-and what kind of a man do they think I am?" So great was the crush after the speech that the President forgot his topcoat, made the return trip to the airport in a tweed model borrowed from a Secret Service...
...Overseers, under the chairmanship of Harrison Tweed '07, said that "it is a fact that neither the philosophy nor any of the recommendations in the (Brown) Report have been accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or the Corporation...
...work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long View knits up the raveled sleeve of middle-class tweed. As in the work of her greater exemplars, Author Howard shows the old, secure, middle-class family house to be falling, and her characters speak in those elliptical, strained asides of snooty English people who would rather drop a friend than an aspirate...