Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Kansas editor, wearing the grey tweed suit and grey cap that he always wears in the mountains, looking more than ever like an apple dumpling with a smile carved into its outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
What the raiders found out about Nazi preparations to cross the Channel, the British War Office kept to itself. But the British east coast, from Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish border around to Hastings on the Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...
...horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
Married. Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., 22, grandson of the 26th President of the U. S. ; and Socialite Katharine Tweed, 20, daughter of Countess Eleanor Palffy and Harrison Tweed; at the Little Church Around the Corner, in Manhattan...
...encumbered always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants, who carried small loudspeakers or wore earphones...