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...sheet," Pearl takes a dry delight in proposing that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...
...mills for their entire output during certain months. The success of the whole plan, he believed, would depend on three rules: 1) buy abroad only what can not be obtained in the U.S.; 2) buy only in areas where the cloth has been made by craftsmen for years (i.e., broadcloth in Normandy, worsteds in northern France); 3) insist that mills pay at least 75? an hour to their employees...
Lavender Gloves. Public education began in Denver on a hot August afternoon in 1859, when a strange figure in black broadcloth, a glossy plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...
...Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...