Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst possible. Looking down into the rough jumble of hills in Crow Creek Valley, 13 miles from Cheyenne, a searching pilot spied the gleaming fuselage of the plane lying like a disemboweled fish at the end of a quarter-mile trail of destruction. Scattered along this were shreds of cloth, lipsticks and compacts, magazines, pieces of sheet music, and, almost touching an oil-drenched cylinder torn from a motor, a copy of Look Homeward Angel which friends of the stewardess later said was hers. The cabin had not caught fire but was broken in two like an exploded firecracker...
...beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast it in a dry kettle. Finally, they strain it through a cotton cloth, leave it to cool. From 1,500 to 2,500 leaves are required for one arroba...
Sitting beside Pilot Mulqueeny, Outfielder Koenecke soon became rambunctious. He began nudging Mulqueeny, grabbing the controls, locking his arm about the startled pilot's neck. Suddenly Koenecke leaped at Parachuter Davis. sank his teeth through several layers of cloth into the smaller man's elbow, bore him to the floor, tore at his clothes, bit into his flesh again & again...
...embalmed body of Enrico Caruso, who died in 1921, lies in a mausoleum near Naples in a glass-covered casket wrapped in a U. S. flag and a green billiard cloth. Friends (including Tenor Tito Schipa) change the clothing every three years. Visitors report a steady discoloration of the tenor's face...
...nature, in Genesis 38. Not being allowed to send obscene matters through the mails in this empire of holy brethren, I can only cite you the passages involved in Holy Writ, trusting that you have a Bible at hand which has not been censored by any members of the cloth...