Word: corduroys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another essay, Rooney remembers that "when I was twelve, my mother bought me a corduroy suit. It must have been the first real suit with matching pants and jacket that I ever had. It even had a vest." To listen to an old senile relative ramble on like this would be considered an act of charity almost above and beyond the call of duty, but to buy a book full of these uninteresting memories from a stranger is sheer lunacy. They are written as simply and as poorly as first-grade primers: Rooney admits. "I dislike retyping a piece...
...hotelkeeper in Patton, Pa., died in 1932, when Weakland was five. His mother, who had five other children, scratched by on welfare for years un til she was able to go back to work as a schoolteacher. "To this day," Weakland says, "I can't look at brown corduroy knickers without getting sick, because if you wore those WPA clothes everybody knew you were on welfare...
...down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age. Atencio said the bandannaed figure, a former governor, had a wild son who had destroyed his father's truck in a stupid wreck. The son had since run away, taking with him some of his father's most prized possessions. "Look at him," Atencio said pityingly. "He has to walk...
...London. Cyril Connolly recalled: "He felt enormously at home in the Blitz, among the bombs, the bravery, the rubble, the shortages, the homeless, the signs of rising revolutionary temper." By then Orwell had become something of a celebrated eccentric, that gaunt Etonian who dressed like a working man (corduroy trousers, dark shirt, size-twelve boots), rolled his cigarettes from a pouch of acrid shag and poured his tea into a saucer before drinking it (there he goes, that Socialist who says such terrible things about Mr. Stalin). Eric Blair had totally metamorphosed into George Orwell; the mask had become...
...Leonard stressed throughout that he was here as someone who appreciates the need for scholastic training, not just smooth style. "Materialistic things are okay; you've got to have it," Leonard said, sweeping one hand across his well-tailored gray, corduroy suit. "But what I value most is what's up here," he added quickly, tapping his forehead...