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Word: sweaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional Brooks Brothers garb and has stepped out in the smart raiment of the New Yorker. When one sees the cover of this latest number, one wonders only: Why hasn't it happened before? No, one doesn't either! Realizing that the R on the rampant bicyclist's sweater is merely atmosphere, one still wonders if in the good old days those he-hellions did wear Radcliffe sweaters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewes Finds Current Lampoon Has Dropped Traditional Brooks Brothers Garb--C. H. Platt Applauds the Change | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...little the worse for their experiences. The two men had beards a month old and both were clad in Moorish dress, their own clothes having been confiscated by the brigands. M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma and papa. Baroness Steinheil's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ransomed | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...awful injustice of their judgment. For the English company offers to have a background that is authentic in the matter of students as well as of quadrangles. The actors will be real students, and yet they are not obliged to wear the pictorial slicker or the loud sweater that speaks. The millennium is nearing when England's well known love of fair play has reached her film companies. One learns with regret that Oxford students do not anticipate with pleasure a romance whose consummation would come on the steps of the chancel. Little do they know how one great love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO HOLYROOD | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

...figure of "The Winged Victory" striding forward against the wind, her loose draped garment blown against strong limbs and matronly bosom. Way off in the margin of the carton stood a roly-poly figure of a girl, marked "Ruth Elder." Her knickers hung in characterless lines. Her kollege kut sweater with checks accentuated the dumpiness. From that ignominious, crowded-out position, she contemplated the noble figure on the pedestal above her. The picture was entitled by Cartoonist Kirby, "The Sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wingless Victory | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Married. Sean O'Casey, famed Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) ; to Eileen Carey, actress (Irish Players Co.) ; in London. Eccentric Mr. O'Casey wore a sweater during the ceremony, as he usually does to theatre first nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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