Word: sharkskin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weaving down Dunster Street with a catalogue under his arm, Vag was stopped by a double-breasted sharkskin for sale at $65. He realized with a shock that the suit would cost him the same as Comp. Lit. 3. Here was a new equality; he had never thought of education in those terms before. Either fabric was less or learning was more--in any case, it was a change. A well cut suit, he thought. I wonder if Comp. Lit. 3 is well...
...Homecoming. That morning the President had returned to Washington from Cairo and Teheran. Tanned and refreshed, he came back dressed in the most informal attire he has yet worn in the White House-a loud blue plaid shirt, loud blue-striped necktie, tan pullover sweater, and grey sharkskin suit...
...gave a Thanksgiving Day feast, with turkey and cranberries. The President and Churchill found time near the end of the Conference to visit the Sphinx. President Roosevelt wore a blue-grey suit most of the time; Churchill varied between a set of his zippered coveralls and a dazzling white sharkskin number, with a five-gallon cowboy...
...Admiral Jean François Darlan, when last week the Admiral decided to have a say for himself. He took great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work table in a dusky room hung with maps...