Sentences with phrase «flannel suit came»

In 1955, the same year The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit came out (and became a bestseller and eventually a movie starring Gregory Peck), Larsen once again recruited Wilson, this time to be part of the planning committee for that year's White House Conference on Education.

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Certainly, the suit's fabrics are impeccable: one flannel - wool blend comes from England's Fox Bros. & Co., the 240 - year - old Savile Row supplier that essentially invented the flannel suit.
He had little use for the notions of Israel Zangwill, who had popularized the phrase «melting pot» in the title of a 1908 play, or of Henry Ford's image of a foreigner jumping into the pot and coming out in a gray flannel suit waving an American flag.
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