In the New World, the British sports car of the immediate pre-Beatles era conveyed a strange alloy of silk-shirt raciness and pipe-smoking tweediness, which suited him.
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The editors, who are based in London, where Sir George Grove first compiled the dictionary in 1878, turned away pleas for a CD-ROM Grove with a politely English academic tweediness.
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If you have trouble with Nick in the Higgins role, perhaps feeling that his pedagogical costume ( wraparound sun goggles, black shorts and bare, rays-muddied chest ) lacks a certain tweediness . . . well, Rex Harrison is no longer available.