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Captain Molyneux, an Irishman who was thrice wounded in the War and won a British Military Cross, is a favorite of young U. S. and English girls. In his grey-walled shop, his grey-clad -vendeuses specialize in selling slender evening gowns, tweed sports and town ensembles, nearly all designed by Molyneux himself...
...Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches and a well-cut tweed coat, umpired last week's match while War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff sat on the sidelines...
...years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
...insecurity both gave him. Starving in London put a temporary quietus on Jack's yearning for adventure; when he had had enough he went stumbling back home, to his mother's querulous greeting: "And I'd like to know what's happened to your new tweed suit...