Word: tweeds
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Other words came right out of old Scotch-Irish dialect-wee for small, kimmie for man, tweed for young man, deek for look at. Still other words were borrowed from the Porno Indians, who moved off to a reservation after an early settler set up his general store in the middle of their camping ground. A few words are corruptions of French, like gorm (gourmand...
...anything from velvet slacks (Magnelli) and collarless tweed jackets (Hartung) to felt capes (Alfred Manessier) and black leather suits (Campigli...
After a lonely Irish boyhood, and a top British school (Clifton), Cary had a futile three years' fling as an art student in Paris and Edinburgh before entering Oxford. Once there, he gamely tried to disguise his bohemian artist's vocation beneath a carapace of casual tweed, but only succeeded in proving that academies are not sound judges of literary talent. He got an almost unheard-of fourth-class honors...
...protesting students charged that the law firm--Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--oppresses the black people of South Africa by supporting their government. The firm represents the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...Harvard Bar Association challenged Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCoy, to debate on Thursday, but the firm said it couldn't fit the debate into its schedule