Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master; "it is even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
Criminal Bassani was proved by the Crown Prosecutor to have "uttered several vulgar phrases" when two women entered his shop to buy white and yellow cloth. He had jumped correctly to the conclusion that they intended to make a Papal banner and by his words "grossly insulted these inoffensive females...
...only too easy to picture the effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without...
Meanwhile in Jalalpur, Bombay, Mrs. Gandhi, elderly wife of the Mahatma, urged crowds of Indian women to picket and boycott liquor stores, foreign cloth shops...
...that the Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...