Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants became Amoskeag; countless were the cotton bales it turned into cotton cloth. A 1927 textile survey rated Amoskeag as world's largest cotton maker. Its cottons, its wools and its rayons kept busy 800,000 spindles, 25,000 looms. Wherever textiles were mentioned, New England mills and Amoskeag were among the first to be named. But the Waters have not been...
...instead books are being presented which are of more general bibliographical interest. More copies than usual have been bought directly from London book-stores, and on the list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...
Therefore, bonfires! Rip and burn the British cloth!* Scream that no Hindu needs more clothes than a breech clout...
When a Most Holy Mahatma or Hindu Saint is caught red-handed staging a bonfire of British cloth for propaganda purposes, how stiffly should the Saint be fined...
...desire to break your law!" piped the high-pitched, treble voice of the Mahatma. "The cloth was ours to burn. Always I advocate non-violence...