Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Friday morning, a gracious, energetic, long-legged lady swept into an office on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to finger two swatches of sheer blue woolen cloth and exclaim to a cackling bevy of fashion reporters: "Isn't it nice that we chose shades which look so well together...
...morning in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Vatican Palace, the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinal Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte . . . will celebrate a solemn mass of the Holy Ghost. The Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals will attend it wearing their woolen robes with plain rochets and capes of violet silk with ermine...
...hope your feet don't stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such as "WOOLEN INNER SHIRTS [or NEW RESOLUTIONS or HANDSLEDS] are ripe in the Land of Mears." He has been publishing it since 1914. Few years ago circulation reached 2,740 (population of Mears: 220), and he decided that was too much work. He got out the circulation list and chopped it down...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...
Army chemists have experimented on 90 yards of wool (enough for about 50 shirts), consider the results satisfactory. Presumably the War Department, which can use the process royalty-free, will treat army uniforms, blankets and other woolen equipment with the solution. A few days after the patents were granted, Inventor Peakes had requests for detailed information from eight clothing manufacturers...