Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls of a tiny room in the Anderson Galleries; other paintings, smaller ones, rested on cabinets or stood along the floor. The room was full of people, talking to each other in awed, foolish whispers. In the corner of the room sat a lady dressed in a black cloth coat, smiling like a severe Mona Lisa. She was Georgia O'Keeffe; the paintings on the wall belonged to her because she had made them; for some reason, the room seemed hers as well...
Certain-Teed Products Corp. and of Beaver Board Companies agreed on a $45,000,000 consolidation. Certain-Teed makes shingles & other roofing materials, building & insulated papers, dry asphalt & tarred felt, linoleum and other floor coverings, oil cloth, plaster and gypsum products, paints, varnishes, enamels. Beaver makes roofing materials, gypsum and plaster products, wood fibre boards...
...again did last week by the purchase of 356 theatres, he enjoys the luxury of reminiscence. Tul-chva, Hungarian village, was his start; the cinema-gorged gulches at Los Angeles his end. On the way was childhood immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan...
...Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric of white. There must not be more than eight or less than six buttons, fiat, covered with the same cloth as the garments, on the front of the coat. The neck cloths must be plain black or plain white...
This was the chief comment vouchsafed by the leader of the English visitors at Harvard yesterday afternoon. He was very much gratified when he was informed that Harvard Square abounded in wielders of the brush and shine cloth...