Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...long-haired artist is gone. The present day artist is likely to be a well-dressed, well-set-up man in a tweed suit with well polished shoes and a smart tie, moving with quick athletic step . . . looking more like a man of affairs than a dreamy esthete. . . . The Academy now needs ample gallery space, so that every good picture can be hung and every good piece of sculpture can be placed...
...Britain held its breath. Proud, loyal Scots piled mountainous bonfires on Hunter's hill and neighboring heights which rise above the castle, made ready to send the news blazing over the mountain tops. Not in generations has a potential heir to the throne been born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain's telephones, prepared a special wire from Glamis castle to the Royal Yacht Squadron (not "club") at Cowes to carry first word to King George. That able obstetrician Sir Henry Simson and the Duchess of York's dour Scotch nurse were ready and waiting. Newsagencies...
...captained by Bobby Jones: the Walker Cup matches at St. George's, Sandwich, England, 10 points to 2, losing only one twosome and one foursome. The English have never won a Walker Cup series since the trophy was put in competition (1922). Dressed in a red and brown tweed knicker suit, the Prince of Wales watched the matches, chatted with the players, imitated with satirical intention the waddle of a flat-footed British galleryite, went down on hands and knees an front of the gallery to see the putting better, chewed...
...Swiss cheese, Brussels sprouts, French peas, Turkish cigarets and Old Dutch Cleanser? Surely these are more dangerous and insidious than mere crosses and ribbons. If I wear the order of the Golden Fleece, it never comes in actual contact with my body, being separated thereby by my Scotch Tweed Weskit and one, perhaps, neutralizes the evil of the other...
...Mann 5 LINDEN STREET Whole house--Potter Palmer LIONEL North Entry--E. D. Emigh 4 South Entry--C. F. Hartnett 11 LITTLE Floor 2--A. M. Nutter 11 Floor 3--M. Brody 38 Floor 4--C. Gillespie 23 Floor 5--H. R. Elsas 42 MASSACHUSETTS East Entry--H. H. Tweed 13 West Entry--T. L. Jarman 24 MATTHEWS South Entry. Floor 1--D. Boyden 35 Floors 2-3--J. D. Frank 42 Floors 4-5--R. W. Perry 31 North Entry Floor 1--R. K. Gumm 1 Floor 2-3--L. Whittemore 16 Floor 4--R. A. Clark 19 Floor...