Word: cast-off
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...Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal proportions that in the first ten months of 1928 U. S. citizens bought 53.230,000 pounds of Japanese cast-off cotton clothing, valued...
...Harlow '29 is in charge of this year's drive, and he is assisted in his duties by J. R. Sachs '29 and S. H. Manierre '29. According to Harlow all donations ranging from old clothes of all descriptions to cast-off sporting outfits will be welcome...
...Harmarville, Pa., a shipment of cast-off clothing from anthracite miners of the Scranton district brought 300 bituminous strikers stumbling through the muddy snow to scramble for pickings. Of this scene, Vice President Charles E. Lesher of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. (Mellon) said...
...could a pair of shifty blackamoors, garbed in cast-off Pullman uniforms make profit out of old stones and garbage without stealing, begging or earning...
...When questioned about the home which popular subscription was building for him in Washington, he said that he wanted only a modest house with a small dining-room seating 18 persons. . . . At 62, he married and deeded the house to his wife. The public became as spiteful as a cast-off mistress. . . . The public was ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult...