Word: aproned
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...woman of firm portliness, resolute and cheerful, talked to reporters in Philadelphia last week, who went away and dubbed her "The German Apron Queen...
...Frau Gertrude Frehse, potent textile industrialist, member of the House of Burgesses of the State and Free City of Hamburg. She said in a burring, rather pleasant voice: "I entered an apron factory, which I have now owned for 18 years, as an ordinary worker. Why should I tell you how long ago that was? . . . Today my husband has his business, too, but we keep all that separate from one another. I expect my two daughters to join me in my business when their education is complete; and my only son intends to enter his father's business. . . . [Smiling...
There is something unfair about the proposition. Florida has a climate, it has bathing beauties, palm trees, the cocoanut grove--many things which Connecticut has not. In Florida one may meet Jimmy Walker in a bathing suit. Billie Burke in a house-apron, movie stars in Rolls-Royces--none of which graces the Connecticut landscape. And now to be deprived of the hibernating elephants--it appears there is no justice...
...fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world's highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ...
...steps of St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Louis, waddled a fat man, one A. E. Phillips. His paunch hung down to his knees, an apron of fat, a masonic ponderosity. Each lift of his thighs made his ample pants toss like garments wind-blown on a wash line. His story...