Word: vouched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minister, now living in Ohio, was so disgusted that Sewanee should give Waring a doctorate of civil law that he sent a brochure of Waring's writings to leading Episcopalians across the country. "Those who have lived in South Carolina," wrote the Rev. Ralph E. Cousins Jr., "can vouch for the demonic influence Mr. Waring and his newspaper have had on South Carolina. It is tragic that the university owned by 21 Episcopal dioceses of the Episcopal Church would applaud such a record...
Savile Row doggedly fought back. Snapped one tailor snippily: "Digby Morton is a lady's fashion designer, and it's very noticeable in his pants. We have never admired the American seat." Said another: "We can't vouch for the Windsors." At Henry Poole & Co., oldest of the fashionable Savile Row establishments, a cutter learnedly expounded the theory of the ample trouser leg: "The full thigh acts as a hinge, enabling a man to lift his leg without banging his knee on the front of his trousers...