Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond and his girl sat down again a rivulet on the seat made it a wet, very wet joke. Amid this flood of the heavens there was a squirming and uneasiness. Oilskins from the Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief to tie down her unstable hat; one was not enough, however, and she claimed his pocket handkerchief...
...study the painting of his successors, chances are that the great Florentine experimenter, well acquainted by now with "abstractions," would have shrugged, smiled, agreed last week with the Carnegie jury which unanimously awarded first prize ($1,000) to Georges Braque of Paris for a design called The Yellow Cloth...
...thumping 30? a lb. Hopes for increase in domestic consumption were dim last week. Anticipating labor troubles, cotton mills operated at capacity early this year. After the break in prices in July, they curtailed operation to reduce inventories. But sales of cotton goods have lagged and large quantities of cloth are still on hand. Cotton mill activity last week fell below September of last year...
...camels. On hot days, Equatorial and Occidental African craftsmen were stinking convincingly last week as they fashioned their wares amid incipient squalor which seemed to make them more at home at the Exposition each day. Biggest was the civilized white crowd around a coal-black East African Negro cloth weaver who chants a weird native jazz in time with the squeaking of his loom pedals, the clanking of his bone shuttle...
Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...