Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim pebbly faced Englishman, for whom an almost unnoticeable muscular movement is sufficient to turn a rapturous smile into a scowl of the utmost malevolence. Anouk is one of the newer French exports; her nose is larger than most, but otherwise she is cut from the whole cloth...
...half century ago, under flickering gaslight in London's Memorial Hall, a group of cloth-capped proletarians and tweed-bearing intellectuals founded the organization that was soon called the British Labor Party. At the next general elections the party boasted two Members of Parliament: Keir Hardie, a Scottish miner, and Richard Bell, a railwayman. Both would have looked out of place at the party's 49th annual conference in Margate last week. Klieg lights poured down on Prime Minister Attlee, six Cabinet Ministers and hundreds of well-dressed Labor Members of Parliament. Among them: seven noble Lords, including...
Just last Saturday a fellow from Eliot House looked up from the green cloth of the pool table, and discovered that his opponent was his own maid...
...take Tuesday, or Wednesday off?" said the Eliot man, tearing the cloth with his stick...
...done more than any other man to raise the once-despised plywood to its present lofty status. By binding plywood to metal, Ottinger and his technicians opened up new markets for the material (in trains, truck bodies and shipping containers). They perfected a thin hardwood veneer as flexible as cloth, turned out a wall covering that cannot be distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related products now sold by Ottinger...