Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee will be represented at the meeting by its chair, Tweed Roosevelt '64; its secretary, H. A. Crosby Forbes '50; architectural historian Douglas Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston; two other committee members and an undergraduate...
...recent cry to "Save the Union" just doesn't have the same ring as it did in 1861. This new, dignified civil war has arisen at the outcry of a handful of alumni, led by Tweed Roosevelt '64, over the proposed renovations to the Great Hall of the Freshman Union. Though their concern is well-intentioned, the alumni's ominous prediction of architectural destruction is both hyperbolic and misguided...
...featured in "Under the Cushions" are ecological sanctuaries. Although they might be news to us, they are a haven for some. Regulars at L&P's loft expressed their concern about damage to their environment due to exposure. So if you choose to go, conduct yourself accordingly. I suggest tweed for easy assimilation...
...wore a lawyerly tie and brown tweed jacket and spoke in a jurist's measured tones. He was sufficiently rational to raise objections that were then sustained by the judge. Yet it was not too long into the first day of the trial last Thursday when Colin Ferguson, lawyer, mused publicly on the 93 charges against Colin Ferguson, defendant, and the audience at the Nassau County, New York, supreme court got a taste of the sort of down-the-rabbit-hole experience they were in for. Leaning informally on a lectern, peering down earnestly at the jury, the Jamaican native...
...could be pulled on in seconds-Maxwell pioneered sportswear for women that was as comfortable as it was chic, earning herself the sobriquet "the American Chanel." Maxwell's sources of inspiration were marvelously eclectic: a 1935 visit with Albert Einstein was said to have prompted her to copy his tweed jacket and add two skirts, a pair of pants and an extra jacket to create her classic "Weekend Wardrobe...