Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city such a group of churchmen fraternize, lunch together, extend a friendly hand to a newcomer and, if he is a Protestant, welcome him into the local Federation of Churches. Lately a newcomer appeared in Detroit. But in all Christian charity many a Detroiter of the cloth found it hard to welcome him sincerely. He was Rev. John Franklyn Norris, loud Texas Baptist who reached fame eight years ago when he was indicted, tried and acquitted of murder. Last week it seemed likely that Baptist Norris would take a Detroit pulpit, settle there for good...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...
...Shameless hawkers in the Gare du Nord sold what they said were scraps of cloth from her trousseau...
Little swatches of cloth, in gay colors and designs, reached the U. S. last week from Italy, accompanied by such explanations as: " 'Wooden overcoats' for live Fascists the rage this season.'' Some of the samples resembled wool or flannel, others mercerized cotton. All were specimens of Sniafiocco, a textile made from wood pulp and lately developed by engineers of Italy's big Snia Viscosa, makers of artificial silk...
...fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton (7 lire against 5.50 per kilo) Sniafiocco textiles cost less than cotton cloth (3 to 8 lire against 10 to 15 lire per metre). Sniafiocco fabrics of varying texture and appearance can be made by admixing small amounts of wool or hemp...