Word: burlap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud one. For the first twenty years, the House was a vacant and tumbledown relie, inhabited at the close by a group of religions ascetics who wanted no more than a roof over their heads. In 1922 the last lessee of the building removed the cobwebs, burlap sacks over the fireplaces and the accumulation of fourteen layers of wallpaper and set out to make Hicks House a replica of what it was in 1762. This was done--only to have the building appropriated by a mushrooming College for its present...
...raiders burned all but eleven of Bukowsko's 400 cottages, John Kinglarski, who used to mine coal near Kingston, Pa., said the Ukrainians had burned his plow and stolen two horses and a cow for which he had paid 8,000 zlotys ($80). Kinglarski, who was wrapped in burlap bags, waved an old U.S. passport. "I had beautiful clothes in America," he said...
...last week put on the best Gauguin show yet seen in the U.S. (including 40 paintings and 44 prints and drawings). Not included: the Boston Museum's 14-by-5-ft. masterpiece entitled Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Whither Are We Going?, which Gauguin painted on burlap sacks after trying to poison himself...
...powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...
Wherever the U.S. troops marched, civilians blossomed in new clothes. Occupation had reduced the Filipinos to burlap-like abaca clothes, or old garments patched beyond recognition. Now green twill fatigue caps, G.I. undershirts and shorts were standard. Some Filipino girls sallied forth in new, white sarongs, made from Government-issue towels, on some of them the legend: CAMP HOOD...