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Heavier clothing is necessary for the ocean voyage thus European climes require. The shrewd traveler takes a tweed or woolen suit and overcoat with him just for the high seas and stores them away when he lands until September...
...Silk & Tweed. In spite of his protective coloration, Trinidad police began to take a lively interest in Fisherman Singh. An indignant Venezuelan had come to town to report that three of his relatives had shipped out of Port-of-Spain last month bound for Venezuela with a $3,000 cargo of cloth and had never been seen again. The police raided the home of Singh's wife and son, found some silk and tweeds of the same pattern as those bought by the missing Venezuelans. They also found the outboard motor and fishing equipment of one of the first...
Despite the loss of a 6,000-record library when he fled Germany in 1936, Dr. Koch has today one of the world's greatest collections of bird and animal recordings. Muffled in an old tweed coat, he carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks...
...conformist always looks like the man next to him. When in college, he dresses in grey flannels, tweed or seer-sucker jackets, and white bucks. His shirt is buttoned to the neck, and he would no more think of going without a tie than he would of wearing many-hued socks with a tailored suit...
...election day, Tory Anthony Eden put on a brown tweed suit and set out hatless to tour the polling stations in his Warwickshire constituency. At one Conservative headquarters, officials told Eden of two elderly spinsters who had sent word, "Don't worry about us. We shall bicycle down to vote after tea." At another station, an indomitable 80-year-old woman made it to the polling booth, cast a Tory vote and collapsed. Said she: "Well, there, that's the last thing I can do for my country...