Word: plaid
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Stored in a Liverpool warehouse, until she can figure out what to do with it: a 447-lb. bale of raw cotton wrapped in red plaid, a gift to Princess Elizabeth from the cotton farmers of Edinburg, Texas...
...what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well-turned legs." Morgan Brittany, a rich planter's wife, sees him and feels "warm all over-warm and good." Ross makes other women feel good too, and much of Floodtide seems designed to set female readers dreaming of Ross and of how much better...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
Vacationing on her mother's farm near Lowell, Ind., Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 1948's foremost Cinderella, got into plaid shirt & blue jeans, settled down to watch 23-month-old son "Winnie" investigate his new surroundings...
...sartorial standard for the gala event will be the presidents of the respective organizations. Dyed M. Foulard, CRIMSON will be attired in an impeccable knee-length camel's hair shirt (available from Mohammeds Men's Shop), while Lampoon pace-setter Fabric M. Gowne will appear in a faultlessly tailored plaid toga (available from Marcellus MacTavish's Faultlessly Tailored Toga Togs). It is reliably reported that in the event of rain, Mr. Gowne will cover his toga with an exotic cape of woven pandanus leaves (available at the Arnold Arboretum...