Word: bedspreads
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...Lonely Hunter. In Wesson, Miss., the Enterprise carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...
...Only in the bedspread, curtains, and women's hosiery line...
...South, double muscadine was a bedspread design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub in a chenille bedspread...
Dinner Dress. In London, a British officer, sick & tired of being told that fashionable Claridge's was all booked up for dinner reservations, made a turban out of a gaudy bedspread, phoned that the "Maharaja of Peshawar" was coming, swept into the dining room, got a table right away...