Word: plaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Looking paunchy, with glints of grey in his hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...
...pattern of a winter suit should be either an overgrown check or an undersized plaid--on the whole, it would be advisable to procure two or three suits, besides extra trousers, of varied styles. The coloring should be warm. Bright reds, blues, oranges, and yellows give a genial effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should...
Varsity. After years of rah-rah pictures, of sporting seniors in plaid pants with suites at the Ritz, of the prom girl, the fresh freshman, of cabalistic tortures in the basement of the Delta Nu house. of winning the game for dear old Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...
Most picturesque of the fathers of television is Captain John L. Baird (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926), long-haired, bespectacled Scotsman, who gave birth to his ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
...interesting contribution to contemporary American is the fact that opera stars can, and according to the Saturday Evening Post do, wear waists made out of the red woolen plaid lining of their Father's twenty year old overcoats. At least such is the accomplishment of Miss Marion Talley, the homespun diva, who is now pouring forth extensive memoirs...