Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small boy hurried through the ticket gate at Harvard Stadium and proceeded to Section 42, Row F, Seats 3 and 4. The man, in his 30s and his best tweed jacket, moved toward the seats instinctively. Why not? This was his 15th straight season in those seats, and likewise it was 15 years since he had sat with his fellow undergraduates, cursing out the season ticket holders and their better accomodations. Now he was drawing the curse. Oh well...
...Daddy, why are you wearing a tweed jacket and a sweater on a warm...
...classes, kinds of jobs. They can be flags of social ordering. The difference between blue collar and white collar has almost always meant the difference between no tie and tie on the job. While some men in, say, the professorial classes go tieless, wearing blue work shirts under their tweed jackets, plenty of factory workers aspire to jobs that involve ties. In William Inge's Picnic, Hal Carter speaks wistfully of a job "in a nice office where I can wear a tie and have a sweet little secretary." When dressing up, blue collar workers often like a loud...
Dressed in a baggy brown tweed suit, Jarvis was barnstorming through Michigan on his first foray in support of a measure to lower taxes since the success in California of Proposition 13, which he cosponsored. His appearance was part of a drive to obtain the 266,000 signatures needed by this week to get a tax-cut referendum on Michigan's November ballot. The proposition, sponsored by Robert Tisch, the drainage commissioner of rural Shiawassee County in central Michigan, would cut property assessments in half, hold future increases to 2.5% a year, and permit the state income...
...word "Imp." (import) in the program next to a dog's name, indicating that he hails from the Emerald Isle. Donald P. (for Patrick, of course) Cuddy, a Dubliner, has been in this country since 1969 racing his dogs. Sitting next to the track in his tweed jacket, drinking a cup of hot chocolate, Cuddy speaks in a gentle brogue about his 44 years in the dog business...