Word: corduroys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slacks, grey flannel or corduroy, are popular at Vassar, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, are forbidden at Wellesley and Duke. Purdue co-eds like jersey culottes (pants disguised as skirts...
Boys and girls of the Music Camp live in cabins on separate lakes, named by the founders Wah-be-ka-ness ("Water Lingers'') and Wah-be-ka-net-ta ("Water Lingers Again") but unanimously called Green Lake and Duck Lake. All wear uniforms of blue corduroy pants or knickers, blue shirts and socks. Uniformed likewise are the faculty (31 this summer), members of competent U. S. orchestras and music schools. Since 1931, NBC has broadcast concerts from the Music Camp's open-air Interlochen Bowl. New this year was a Radio Workshop, whose members wrote scripts...
...backwoods Bannisters, for all their advantages of fresh air and beautiful scenery, lived in a condition of squalor equal to that of any city slum. Heavy, truculent Mother Bannister was the township's "fast woman." In peaked caps and corduroy breeches, her sons, pinheaded Daniel and grinning Arthur, snared rabbits in the woods. So irredeemably relaxed were the Bannister morals that a Salvation Army officer assigned to improve their lot ended by undoing 13-year-old daughter Marie. At about that time the Bannisters got their bright idea...
With broad-shouldered Planter Ames, a patriarchal figure in mustard corduroy, at the head of the procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning...
...frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown jacket with gray trousers!" "Ploppy and unimaginative." Thumbs-down is the high sign on derbies and corduroy pants...