Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strides past the finish. Jockey Fisher stopped whipping his horse and reached over to slash at Jockey Meade. He dismounted, ran up to the judges' stand to protest that Meade had fouled him by holding his saddle cloth before the finish. For a moment everyone in the grandstand could see Fisher, a tiny, wildly excited figure in bright orange silks, waving both arms. The judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official...
...declare a complete embargo of Russian goods and cut off from Russia some $130,000,000 a year of her best customer's trade. Every diplomat, every reporter in Moscow fought for a seat in that blue & white room and gazed eagerly at the tables covered with red cloth where sat three sack-suited judges...
...inquiry room was formed by hanging large curtains of green "ground cloth" at one end of the barren gas-cell shop. White airship fabric draped the dais, where sat Rear Admiral Henry Varnum Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, president of the court...
...most hope for a commutation of sentence from electrocution of sentence from electrocution to life imprisonment. Until the prejudices permeating Southern thought are liquidated it will continue to be obvious that the eye-bandage Justice wears to insure an impartial weighing of the scales is made of transparent cheese-cloth...
...odor of the stockmarket on Father Coughlin's cloth was quickly counteracted by the odor of gunpowder after the bombing. From a "gambler" he changed suddenly into a "martyr." He moved from his damaged cottage into his striking Charity Crucifixion Tower, remained incommunicado save to announce that he would soon reply to his "enemies." Sunday, with vibrant voice, he addressed once more the ten million. Defending his right to speak of financial matters, he renewed his denunciations of "crap-shooting bank affiliates and their hideout holding companies" which he had charged were formed to evade paying double liability...