Word: cheesecloth
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...appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky man's name, all in proper form for submission to the Senate for confirmation. . . . Now here is a report and a recommendation from the Tariff Commission for a 50% duty increase on cheesecloth. If the President wishes to follow this recommendation, Mr. Forster will prepare the customary order and proclamation. And here are the engraved commissions for the six new U. S. judges just confirmed by the Senate. Would the President blow up a bridge in California tomorrow evening? Very well, Mr. Forster will...
Valencia (Mae Murray). Dimitri Buchowetzki wrote the scenario, directed the production of a ham idyl that tells how Valencia of Barcelona, coy charmer, preferred a handsome sailor (Lloyd Hughes) to a smirking Governor (Roy D'Arcy). Clumsy framework pokes through a cheesecloth illusion...
...Whoever was running the show must have realized that as far as the spectators were concerned, the show was a flop. Then, he too remembered that he was in Boston. He acted quickly. "Break out the winter underwear!" was his shout. And as the review progressed more and more cheesecloth appeared, and one and two leaf costumes blossomed into whole shrubs...
...world full of them, a Winkelberg mankind. Every dawn, when the red sun bowled up over the earth, all the Winkelberg bulbs stirred in a blind organism known to the Winkelbergs as a day of life. Personified, this day was a disheveled maniac, a Humpty Dumpty in streaming cheesecloth toga, bawling fresh tidings from Bedlam down the winds of the earth...
...finest achievements. Too early he was entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper of closet drama, of dancing figures in cheesecloth, of symbolism and of dialect. Had this genius chosen to explore life and write of it as he found it, he might have been mentioned in the same breath as Eugene O'Neill...