Word: pilling
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...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...
...appearances on the stage of the Palace Theater are a better a enough pill to swallow. But the last punishing touch of perfidy are the lines alleged to come from his pen. A strange and altogether alien person seems to tell how he took the "400", in to camp, wallowed in their silk sheets, sipped their wines, smoked their expensive tobacco, and regaled them with his glittering conversation...
Naturally Pal Laval was shrewd enough to sugarcoat this unpleasant pill with a statement that Great Britain has five times more unemployed than France, Germany eleven times more, the U. S. 17 times more...
...Culpeper Tonsilitis Pill. The herbs of which this pill is composed act directly on the glands and tonsils and have been the means of preventing the necessity removal of tonsils. Price...
...total number of exports and was therefore against the interests of all nations, since in every transaction both buyer and seller profit. To increase the number of transactions and therefore the number of benefits to all, he prescribed Free Trade. But suspicious Mother Britain would scarcely have swallowed this pill- except for her geography...