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...room . . . the summerhouse with the well in it ... the drooping cut-leaf maple. It was all just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing at the top of the stairs in her kitten's-ear broadcloth with the long train, the diamond butterfly from Tiffany's sparkling at the black-velvet ribbon around her throat. . . . But I couldn't see her for the mist in my eyes...
Commander Nancy Harkness Love of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (TIME, Sept. 21) last week told about WAFS uniforms: grey-green wool gabardine jackets with squared shoulders, gored skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks...
...seasons were Windorn (winter), Grane (spring), Sorn (summer) and Leaves (fall). It had a climate, a terrain, a history and a literature all its own, all of which Austin Wright invented. Its inhabitants wore what the English of that period would have called "rational dress" (knickers of navy blue broadcloth were correct for men), and their furnishings and architecture rather suggest the tastes of Frank Lloyd Wright (no kin to the author...
...across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
Even cotton manufacturers, who have not been able to plead higher raw-material prices, have pushed broadcloth prices up from 4 to 25%, print cloth 13 to 14% anyway. By December this wholesale price situation had raised store prices from one to four percent over pre-war levels for suits, underwear, sheets and blankets...