Word: broadcloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...
...room . . . the summerhouse with the well in it ... the drooping cut-leaf maple. It was all just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing at the top of the stairs in her kitten's-ear broadcloth with the long train, the diamond butterfly from Tiffany's sparkling at the black-velvet ribbon around her throat. . . . But I couldn't see her for the mist in my eyes...
Commander Nancy Harkness Love of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (TIME, Sept. 21) last week told about WAFS uniforms: grey-green wool gabardine jackets with squared shoulders, gored skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks...
...seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...