Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing. When the curtain swung down on her violent death it was a long moment before a hand was lifted in applause. Then began an ovation lasting a quarter...
...Jersey will lend Spain $100,000,000 at no interest in return for the oil monopoly. Last week Spain "gave assurance" that it has been made no such offer, and Standard's Walter Clark Teagle, in London, said the story was "made out of whole cloth...
...Delhi a hartal (passive strike) was called after the arrest of 71 Nationalists who were picketing a liquor shop, carrying out the Mahatma's campaign against foreign cloth and spirits...
Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
...England textiles have been notoriously ailing, unable to compete with cheap labor in Southern mills. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest maker of cotton cloth in the world, is the century-old giant of the industry. In 1928 it lost more than $1.500,000. In 1929 it earned well over $1,500,000. Those who know Amoskeag agree that credit goes to one man: Frederick Christopher Dumaine, who at 64 is treasurer of Amoskeag.* "Some of the owners of this property are getting alarmed and urging us to discontinue before all the money is lost. That's an easy suggestion. . . ." Thus...