Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coventry charitable Peeping Toms get for their money the following eyeful: 1) One large white horse; 2) One pair of pink tights (blanket-thick); 3) One enormous wig of flowing hair sufficient almost to enshroud the wearer; 4) One bare-faced Coventry girl who sits on the horse, concealed by tights and wig. Last week P. Toms, disgusted by the Coventry swindle, swarmed to St. Albans, drawn by this foursquare, unequivocal guarantee...
...presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...
...Savannah, Ga., a bald eagle perched and rode along in the rumble seat of Judge Henry Mathews' motor car. He captured it with a blanket...
...planes wrote "Carol" in the sky as the Lowe chamber met, every deputy in a dress suit. In orthodox Catholic fashion they voted that Carol never renounced his rights, that Mihai has never been King, that since July 20, 1927 the King of Rumania has been "Carol II." This blanket annulment, wiping out the events of three years, was passed by 310 "Yesses" over the "No" of Liberal Leader Vintila Brati-anu while his 39 Liberal henchmen abstained. Chamber and Senate then met together as the National Assembly, and at 2:40 p. m. by a vote...
...Manhattan, two old Chinese, Eng Loy, 51, and his cousin Eng Fu-wee, 62, retired to their room. Eng Loy asked for a blanket. Eng Fu-wee refused to give him one. Eng Loy grabbed the blanket. Eng Fu-wee hit Eng Loy with a meat cleaver. Eng Loy found a meat cleaver...