Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including one from President Truman, one from the Pope and one from General Eisenhower. "We are particularly happy," wired Ike, "because the birthday of the prince is the same as that of Mrs. Eisenhower." A six-foot battalion commander of the Home Guard sent a sweater knitted by himself. New York's National Institute of Diaper Services sent 100 diapers, each one stamped with the royal arms...
...quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
Once upon a time, anyone who wanted to ski simply pulled on a sweater and an old pair of pants, shouldered skis and took off for the hills. That was before the U.S. clothing industry made it its $15 million-a-year business to make sure that skiers got to the wilds suitably groomed to: 1) ski and 2) impress other skiers. Last week, with snow falling in Canada's Laurentians and in the U.S. Midwest, department stores went after the skiers with fashion shows, grand openings and a fanfare of flashy publicity...
Sometime at today's game, a fellow in a sweater is going to run his lips over the mouth of a bottle of rye. Another follow with white shoes and a red-head is going to pour four chilled martinis complete with pearl onions, Chances are that six characters wearing straw bats will also consume a case of been during the three hours they occupy their Soldiers Field seats...
...were a violet sweater, ruby red lipstick, and gray flannel skirt, proving her Harvard fidelity. "I have trouble with my hose," she said, "but my mother didn't send any razor blades...