Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evacuation procession included petits bourgeois in well-worn but well-tailored suits; artisans and laborers in ragged, patched work clothes; automobiles out of gas, loaded with entire families and drawn by horses; an ice-cream vendor's velocipede, with a baby squalling in the ice-cream compartment; people with dogs, cats, cattle, goats and parrots...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery, on the road to Berlin, was wearing the same brown sweater he had worn on the road to Dunkerque in 1940-thanks to some Belgian monks who had found the sweater in the city of Louvain and kept it safe from moths and Nazis...
...four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
Unlike earlier Record Hops, the dance is open to everyone. Tuxedos or summer formals may be worn by the men. Lasting from 9 to 12 o'clock, the Formal will be held in the House dining hall, and all members of the Adams House resident staff have been invited by the Committee, Chairman C. Austin Fish '46 announced. The "Football Formal" will be the third social function presented by the Gold Coasters this season and will be the last for the summer term...
Tuxedoes or summer formals may be worn by the men. The dance will last from 9 to 12 o'clock and will be held in the House dining hall with a unique spotlight system highlighting the decoration scheme. All members of the resident staff at Adams House have been invited by the Committee. The "Football Formal" will be the third social function presented by the Gold Coasters this season and will be the last for the summer term...